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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Water-Related Urbanization and Locality |
| Subtitle of host publication | Protecting, Planning and Designing Urban Water Environments in a Sustainable Way |
| Editors | Fang Wang, Martin Prominski |
| Publisher | Springer Singapore |
| Pages | 303-315 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9789811535079 |
| ISBN (print) | 9789811535062 |
| Publication status | Published - 4 May 2020 |
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Sustainable Development Goals
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Water-Related Urbanization and Locality: Protecting, Planning and Designing Urban Water Environments in a Sustainable Way. ed. / Fang Wang; Martin Prominski. Springer Singapore, 2020. p. 303-315.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Assessing the Uniqueness of River Landscapes
T2 - The Lahn Case Study
AU - Albert, Christian
AU - Brenner, Jana
AU - Hermes, Johannes
AU - Metzger, Dominik
AU - Thiele, Julia
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.
PY - 2020/5/4
Y1 - 2020/5/4
N2 - Rivers create landscape with often unique characteristics, which make them both hotspots for biodiversity and preferred areas for human activities. Assessing and valuing the specific character of those areas is a crucial aspect when aiming to develop spatial strategies for more sustainable river landscape development. One of the most important determinants of a landscape’s character is its uniqueness, understood here as the specificity of a particular landscape. The aim of this contribution is to introduce a method for assessing and evaluating the landscape uniqueness of riverside areas. More specifically, we propose and apply a method for assessing landscape uniqueness to the Lahn river landscape, Germany, and compare the results with existing assessments of landscape uniqueness in Germany in general. Our results provide insights regarding both the spatial distribution of attributes of uniqueness across the case study area, and the specific uniqueness of the case study area in comparison with German river landscapes in general. We close with recommendations for further research and for applications in practice.
AB - Rivers create landscape with often unique characteristics, which make them both hotspots for biodiversity and preferred areas for human activities. Assessing and valuing the specific character of those areas is a crucial aspect when aiming to develop spatial strategies for more sustainable river landscape development. One of the most important determinants of a landscape’s character is its uniqueness, understood here as the specificity of a particular landscape. The aim of this contribution is to introduce a method for assessing and evaluating the landscape uniqueness of riverside areas. More specifically, we propose and apply a method for assessing landscape uniqueness to the Lahn river landscape, Germany, and compare the results with existing assessments of landscape uniqueness in Germany in general. Our results provide insights regarding both the spatial distribution of attributes of uniqueness across the case study area, and the specific uniqueness of the case study area in comparison with German river landscapes in general. We close with recommendations for further research and for applications in practice.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-3507-9_16
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-3507-9_16
M3 - Contribution to book/anthology
SN - 9789811535062
SP - 303
EP - 315
BT - Water-Related Urbanization and Locality
A2 - Wang, Fang
A2 - Prominski, Martin
PB - Springer Singapore
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