Exploring New Productive Landscapes: Landscape-based spatial and temporal planning and design of post-industrial areas along Foshan’s waterways

The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a the watershed consisting Xi (west), Bei (north) and Dong (east) rivers located in the Guangdong Province in the South-West region of China. Much of the PRD area lies between 0-20m above sea level and the rivers from the mainland feed the delta with 340 billion cubic meters of rainwater yearly (Weng, 2007). Water...

From Boundary to Border: Toward a resilient, dynamic and interactive urban edge of Northwest Miami

On the northwest urban edge of Miami Dade County, the mining industry of the largest scale in Florida has existed for over 60 years. However, it is estimated to stop by 2050 as the reserves decline. As a consequence of limestone mining, more than 10,000 hectares of abandoned lakes will be left on the landscape. This project proposes land and...

Dynamic Adaptive Development Pathways: A participatory planning approach to support sustainable development under uncertain future conditions

Rural communities in drylands of low-income countries represent highly vulnerable societies that are<br/>often strongly affected by the increased climate variability (UNDP, 2007/2008). Additionally to climatic<br/>uncertainty, local households have also to cope with strongly fluctuating political and economic<br/>conditions, which are difficult...

From emergency landscapes to ecologies of co-habitation: Agricultural production, the normality in a state of exception

The geopolitical instability in Syria has led to an increased disturbance of the environmental, economic and social situation in its adjacent country Lebanon. A comprehensive approach is put forward, for safeguarding the environment and to address the economic and social disruptions the country is facing. This allows the phenomenon and...

The Honduran Production Valleys: Finding Balance Between People and Environment

This thesis initiated from a project worked on in conjunction with the PBL, the Environmental Agency of the Netherlands. The project, with PBL, follows three case studies of landscapes to research the implementation of the landscape approach for reaching the new framework of sustainable development goals, developed at the 2015 climate change...