Spatial Concepts in Landscape Analysis and Policy: Some Implications of Globalisation |
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Authors: | Simon Swaffield Jørgen Primdahl |
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Institution: | (1) Environment Society and Design Division, Lincoln University, PO Box 84, Canterbury, New Zealand;(2) KVL University, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Abstract: | Globalisation accelerates the dynamics of the network society and economy, in which distant relationships become functionally
more significant than local landscape relationships. This presents challenges and opportunities for landscape analysis. Using
social scientific concepts of global and local space, and ecological concepts of hierarchy, two qualitative case studies are
undertaken of urban fringe landscapes in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Christchurch, New Zealand. They reveal a convergence of
landscape pattern over time, but this disguises significant differences in underlying socio-economic process and institutional
response. There are several implications for landscape analysis and policy. First, there is a need for studies grounded in
particular landscapes that acknowledge both local spatial landscape relationships and non spatial ‘global’ processes. Second, the transformation of landscapes through urbanisation provides a useful focus for
the connection of landscape ecological understanding of landscape systems with social scientific understanding of human agency
and social structure. Third, there is a significant challenge in how to develop local and regional institutions and policies
that have the capacity to utilise and apply these diverse analytical perspectives. |
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Keywords: | Christchurch New Zealand Copenhagen Edge city Globalisation Landscape analysis Urban fringe |
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