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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2014
    Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Australia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland

    This review paper focuses on research schemes regarding urbanity and urbanization, and brings together both cultural and physical approaches. First, we review the cultural and social construction of urbanity (as related to urbanization) in Germany. In the early 20th century, urbanity was mainly the result of identity derived from a historical perspective in cities.

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2008
    Chile, Germany, Spain

    Cities are not socially homogenous, but divided into socially and structurally differentiated sub-units. Likewise, the individuals of a community, city or neighbourhood present specific behavioural patterns and uses with respect to their public green areas. This premise has led us to explore the question of how the perceptions, uses, and behaviours of people from different countries, cultures, and socioeconomic levels in Chile, Germany and Spain differ or coincide as far as urban nature and landscapes are concerned.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2009
    Germany

    Landscapes differ in their capacities to provide ecosystem goods and services, which are the benefits humans obtain
    from nature. Structures and functions of ecosystems needed to sustain the provision of ecosystem services are altered
    by various human activities. In this paper, a concept for the assessment of multiple ecosystem services is proposed
    as a basis for discussion and further development of a respective evaluation instrument. Using quantitative and

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    November, 2010
    Austria, Germany

    Landscapes provide a broad range of services to society. To date, however, only few regional to continental scale
    studies assess the capacity of landscapes to provide these services under changing environmental conditions. This
    is required if the maintenance of current landscape multifunctionality remains a long-term goal. The presented
    mini review highlights and promotes the concept of landscape functions, defined as the capacity or potential of
    landscapes to provide services. Ultimately, spatially explicit landscape-function assessments may provide baseline

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    October, 2014
    Germany

    The impairment of landscapes is a concern constantly raised against wind energy developments in Germany
    as in other countries. Often, landscapes or landscape types are treated in the literature as essentialist or
    at least as uncontested categories. We analyse two examples of local controversies about wind energy, in
    which “landscape” is employed by supporters and opponents alike, from a poststructuralist and discourse
    theoretical angle. The aim is to identify and compare landscape constructs produced in the micro discourses

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2009
    Germany

    The scenic quality of a landscape is a natural resource that is to be preserved according to German and international law. One important indicator for the evaluation of this value is the structural diversity of the landscape. Although Landscape Metrics (LM) represent a well-known instrument for the quantification of landscape patterns, they are hardly used in applied landscape and environmental planning. This study shows possibilities for the integration of LM into a commonly used method to assess scenic quality by the example of a Landscape Structure Plan.

  7. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2014
    Germany

    As part of the planned expansion work of the motorway A8 between Rosenheim and Salzburg and the
    associated legal opportunity to develop new traffic noise protection measures, this study investigated
    properties of sustainable noise abatement in a community next to the A8. A two-stage empirical survey
    was conducted integrating a citizen and an expert Delphi survey. The results show that the noise from
    the motorway heavily affects the quality of life in health, economic and ecological respects. Sustainable

  8. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2014
    France, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark

    The effects determined in the landscape by plants powered by renewable sources represent some unresolved issues in terms of visual and landscape impact mitigation in general. These aspects relate to the landscape are recognized in all types of impact with due attention to the various components and dynamics involved identifiable in the landscape of reference.

  9. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2015
    Germany, China

    The principle of urban-rural gradients can reveal the spatial variations of ecosystem services and socioeconomic dimensions. The interrelations between ecosystem services and socioeconomics have scarcely been considered in the context of urban-rural areas. We investigated the spatial gradients and the mutual linkages of several ecosystem services and

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