Contents


Preface

Landscape reclamation is generally considered a multidisciplinary field, which incorporates several branches of knowledge, integrating at the same time science, technology, and arts. For this reason, each and every specialist willing to reclaim derelict landscape should be perceived as someone who is able to promote the definition of multifunctional land uses, while enabling landscape alterations to ensure sustainable development, protect the environment, preserve natural and

In this regard it is increasingly important to reuse and rethink previously developed areas that are now abandoned or underused. Instead of consuming green lands, brown and gray lands need to be redeveloped and given new life, achieving a more sustainable urban setting. In this sense, although landscape reclamation plays a very important role in societal development, the continuous use of green fields continues to have deep economic, social, and ecological impacts that require special attention. The new environmental paradigms associated with globalization, progressive climate change, and increasing food production needs will certainly intensify the entropy and instability in most of the existing natural lands. This reality creates the

By highlighting a body of knowledge related to the discussion of the opportunities and challenges associated with the development of new sustainable landscapes raised out of ruins, and considering current and future challenges related to landscape reclamation, planning, and development, the present book focuses not only on the different sustainability pillars, but also on the impacts these changes

Crossing a wide range of research domains and issues associated with derelict landscape redevelopment such as landscape reclamation, public involvement, landscape quality assessment, land use resilience, land policies, and urban planning, among others, this book intends to assess the impact of contemporary needs, constraints, landscape reclamation methods, and strategies on planning,

As a landscape architect and agronomic engineer with research interests deeply embedded in the fields of sustainability, postindustrial landscape planning, and design, my main investigation goals are directly connected to fitting design, especially that related to landscape transformation of previously developed or derelict areas, to the needs and desires of contemporary life, while addressing in equal measure society, the natural landscape, heritage and culture, and economic

I truly believe that landscape reclamation processes are still missing the vision of circular planning, which differs from many contemporaries in its philosophical grounding in the social as well as creative matrices. This calls for a comprehensive

cultural assets, and improve people's quality of life.

perfect momentum to assess these issues.

might have on each one of them.

ecosystem, and landscape design.

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