M Dennis
Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity
Dennis, M; Scaletta, KL; James, P
Abstract
Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sparing (compaction) and land-sharing (sprawl) scenarios. Using part of Greater Manchester (UK) as a case-study, we present a landscape approach to mapping green infrastructure and variation in social-ecological-environmental conditions as a function of land sparing and sharing. We do so for the landscape as a whole as well as for areas of high and low urbanity. Results imply potential trade-offs between land-sparing-sharing scenarios relevant to characteristics critical to urban resilience such as landscape connectivity and diversity, air quality, surface temperature, and access to green space. These trade-offs may be particularly complex due to the parallel influence of patch attributes such as land-cover and size and imply that both ecological restoration and spatial planning have a role to play in reconciling tensions between land-sparing and sharing strategies.
Citation
Dennis, M., Scaletta, K., & James, P. Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity. PLoS ONE, 14(7), e0215796. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215796
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Jul 25, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Apr 15, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 11, 2019 |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 7 |
Pages | e0215796 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215796 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215796 |
Related Public URLs | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215796 |
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