Basic and Clinical Environmental Approaches in Landscape Planning

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shimizu, Hiroyuki (Editor), Murayama, Akito (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives ; 17
• Subjects: Geography.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Sustainable development.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscap...

Table of Contents:

• Cultural Landscape: What People Give Value to in Their Surroundings
• Landscape Perception in Japan and Germany.-  New Trend of Landscape Planning & Design in Japan
• Possibility of Japanese Landscape Planning for Development Management
• Landscape Perception of the Residents in Nyu Village, Kushida-River
• Landscape Sequence of Kushida-River
• Social Perceptions of Wetlands and their Implications to Environmental Decision Making
• How can We Make Mandala of Landscape Issues on Kushida-River
• Issues on Clinical Environmental Approach in Multi-Scale, Participatory Landscape Planning.