TY - BOOK AU - Zander,Hannes AU - McCartney,Shelagh AU - Solano,Samantha AU - Vangjeli,Sonja TI - Landscape approach: from local communities to territorial systems SN - 9781954081239 AV - HT241 .L359 2022 U1 - 307.1/416 23/eng/20230117 KW - Sustainable urban development KW - Urban landscape architecture KW - City planning KW - Environmental aspects KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Urbanisme durable KW - Paysage urbain KW - Écologie urbaine KW - urban landscapes KW - aat KW - urban environments KW - fast N1 - Place of publication from the publisher's website; Includes bibliographical references N2 - The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice. By linking individual sites and local communities to territorial socio-ecological systems and processes, they discuss issues of urban growth and development, remote areas of extraction and production, environmental degradation and transformation, and social inequality and discrimination. While the book allows for parallel readings of such issues in multiple cultural and geographical contexts, a geographic focus is placed on Canada and other environmentally complex and sensitive northern regions. One key theme is the integration of Indigenous knowledge, experience, and storytelling throughout several of the chapters. The book draws lessons that are grounded in inclusive, contextual, and multi-scalar readings which suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable ER -