Creating Resilient Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change Global Case Studies and Real-World Solutions

1. Landscape Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: A Call to Transition from Despair to Hope

Amin Rastandeh and Meghann Jarchow

2. Multifunctional Land Consolidations in Denmark: Rethinking the Pattern of Landownership to Create Resilient Future Landscapes

Søren Præstholm, Brian Kronvang, Jakob Vesterlund Olsen, Jesper Sølver Schou and Pia Heike Johansen

3. Resilient Food Production – Resilient Landscapes: The Role of Heterogeneity and Scale

Kerstin Potthoff and Wenche E. Dramstad

4. Re-Developing Relationships with Landscapes for Food, Water, and Energy Self-Sufficiency in Southeastern South Dakota, USA

Meghann Jarchow

5. A Social Perennial Vision for the North American Great Plains Rooted in the Resilience of a Natural System-Inspired Agriculture

Aubrey Streit Krug, Timothy E. Crews and Thomas P. McKenna

6. Resilient Food Systems in the Context of Intersectional Discrimination: Successful Strategies of Women and Indigenous Peoples in Mesoamerica

Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz, Magdalena Reynoso Martinez, and Rachael Ann Cox

7. Improved Grazing Management for Resilience and Ecosystem Services: The Case of Beef Production Systems on the Campos Grasslands of South America

Soledad Orcasberro, Laura Astigarraga, Marta Moura Kohmann, Pablo Modernel and Valentín D. Picasso

8. How Does Gardening Reduce Vulnerability for the Urban Poor in Small Island Developing States? A Case Study of Port Vila, Vanuatu

Andrew MacKenzie

9. The Case of the Khayelitsha Wetlands Park, South Africa: Securing Biodiversity and Social Benefits from Urban Greenspace

Fezile Mathenjwa, Pippin Anderson and Patrick O’Farrell

10. Green Infrastructure in Hornsby NSW: A Collaborative Method Toward Landscape Resilience

Simon Kilbane

11. Satoyama Landscapes: Creating Resilient Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes in Japan

Katsue Fukamachi

12. Shifting Concepts of Urban Landscape in Helsinki: From Primary Forests to High Tech Nature-Based Solutions

Kati Vierikko, Elisa Lähde, Elina Nyberg, Silviya Korpilo and Christopher Raymond

13. Traditional Nature-Based Architecture and Landscape Design: Lessons from Samoa and Wider Oceania

Anita Latai-Niusulu, Susana Taua’a, Gabriel Luke Kiddle, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Paul Blaschke and Victoria Chanse

14. Estimation of Spatiotemporal Variation in Potential Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Aydın, Turkey

Ebru Ersoy Tonyaloğlu and Birsen Kesgin Atak

15. Scenario Based Thinking to Negotiate Coastal Squeeze of Ecosystems: Green, Blue, Grey and Hybrid Infrastructures for Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Scott Hawken, Kaihang Zhou, Luke Mosley and Emily Leyden

16. Utilization of Forest Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation in a Mediterranean Ecosystem: A Case Study of Greece

Alexandra D. Solomou

17. Creating Resilient Landscapes: From a Hopeful Vision to a Long-Lasting Existence

Amin Rastandeh and Meghann Jarchow

Biography

Amin Rastandeh is a landscape analyst, with experience in the United States, New Zealand, and Iran, working on human-environmental interactions and climate change in evolving multifunctional landscapes. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sustainability and Environment at the University of South Dakota, United States. He specializes in multi-scale design and management of landscapes for safeguarding biodiversity and human communities in the face of climate change.

Meghann Jarchow is chair and associate professor in the Department of Sustainability and Environment at the University of South Dakota, United States. Her expertise includes taking a place-based approach to working toward greater sustainability including serving as chair of Greening Vermillion, president of Spirit Mound Historic Prairie, and board Member of EcoSun Prairie Farms.