Urban planning, in particular on protected landscape areas, demands an increasing role of public participation within the frame of the efficiency of sustainable planning process. The development of urban planning actions in Protected Landscape areas, as Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, should perform a methodological process that is structured over distinct sequential stages, providing the developm...

0006-3207/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.09.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: School of Biolo Southampton, Life Sciences Building (B85), Highfield 1BJ, UK. Tel.: +44 (0)2380 597382. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (F. E lakeheadu.ca (S.J. Hecnar), [email protected] Landscape-scale processes (e.g. habitat loss) are major drivers of the glob...

With accelerated deforestation and fragmentation through the tropics, assessing the impact that landscape spatial changes may have on biodiversity is paramount, as this information is required to design and implement effective management and conservation plans. Primates are expected to be particularly dependent on the landscape context; yet, our understanding on this topic is limited as the maj...

Better information leads to better design. In landscape design, the designers care f o r what the plans will affect the urban more than what their plans will look like. In this paper, we discuss some key techniques in a GIs based landscape design system. With the advantage of the GIs, designers can make better decisions. A protorype named landscape evaluation system (LES) has been implemented. ...