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Landscape Planning for a More-than-Human Future
Landscape planning shapes the spaces where people and nature coexist. It is a future-oriented discipline that integrates ecological knowledge, spatial planning, and societal values to create resilient, biodiverse, and livable landscapes. By anticipating change and balancing competing demands, landscape planning addresses the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. It promotes sustainable and responsible land use while advancing environmental justice for both humans and more-than-human life, ensuring that present and future generations can thrive within healthy and regenerative ecosystems.
At the Chair of Landscape Planning, we investigate how landscapes can respond and adapt to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, while safeguarding and enhancing natural capital for the benefit of both human and more-than-human communities and driving transformative change toward more sustainable and resilient futures.
Our research focuses on nature-based solutions, transformative environmental governance, multispecies landscape planning, and innovative methods for socio-ecological planning. By combining ecological expertise with technological innovation and participatory approaches, we develop new ways of understanding and shaping the relationships between people, nature, and landscapes. Our work spans the use of ecosystem processes to address societal challenges, the integration of more-than-human perspectives into planning, and the application of cutting-edge tools such as artificial intelligence, environmental DNA (eDNA), and serious games to tackle complex planning questions and support evidence-based decision-making.
