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Human-Environment Interactions 8

Sustainable Land Management in a European Context

Thomas Weith · Tim Barkmann ·Nadin Gaasch · Sebastian Rogga · Christian Strauß · Jana Zscheischler Editors

A Co-Design Approach

Human-Environment Interactions

Volume 8

Series Editor

Emilio F. Moran, Michigan State University, Bloomington, IN, USA TheHuman-Environment Interactionsseries invites contributions addressing the role of human interactions in the earth system. It welcomes titles on sustainability, climate change and societal impacts, global environmental change, tropical deforestation, reciprocal interactions of population-environment-consumption, large-scale monitoring of changes in vegetation, reconstructions of human interactions at local and regional scales, ecosystem processes, ecosystem services, land use and land cover change, sustainability science, environmental policy, among others. The series publishes authored and edited volumes, as well as textbooks. It is intended for environmentalists, anthropologists, historical, cultural and political ecologists, political geographers, and land change scientists. Human-environment interaction provides a framework that brings together scholarship sharing both disciplinary depth and interdisciplinary scope to examine past, present, and future social and environmental change in different parts of the world. The topic is very relevant since human activities (e.g. the burn offossil fuels, shing, agricultural activities, among others) are so pervasive that they are capable of altering the earth system in ways that could change the viability of the very processes upon which human and non-human species depend. More information about this series athttp://www.springer.com/series/8599

Thomas Weith

Tim Barkmann

Nadin Gaasch

Sebastian Rogga

Christian Strauß

Jana Zscheischler

Editors

Sustainable Land

Management in a European

Context

A Co-Design Approach

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Editors

Thomas Weith

Institute of Environmental Science

and Geography

University of Potsdam, Campus Golm

Potsdam, Germany

Working Group"Co-Design

of Change and Innovation"

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural

Landscape Research (ZALF)

Müncheberg, Germany

Nadin Gaasch

Science Management and Transfer

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact

Research (PIK)

Potsdam, Germany

Christian Strauß

Research Area'Land Use and Governance'

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape

Research (ZALF)

Müncheberg, Germany

Tim Barkmann

Research Area'Land Use and Governance'

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape

Research (ZALF)

Müncheberg, Germany

Sebastian Rogga

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape

Research (ZALF)

Müncheberg, Germany

Jana Zscheischler

Working Group"Co-Design of Change and

Innovation"

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape

Research (ZALF)

Müncheberg, Germany

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Human-Environment Interactions

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Foreword

Sustainable land management is a key issue among the various applications of sustainable development. Humans are mobile terrestrial beings who need land as terrarmato support their activities and obtain vital resources. And yet land makes up only a third of the earth's surface and isnite, much of it already having been populated by humans. Other basic preconditions for ensuring the survival of humans were the availability offreshwater and a plant cover that provided food and shelter, which was used for gathering and hunting. This activity was steadily improved owing to skill and intellect, particularly after learning how to usere as an effective energy source. The real importance of land, however, was discovered when humans started to practice agriculture, especially crop farming. This was the very origin of land use and therst decisive step in transforming nature into a typical human environment, called culture. Humans took ownership of land and selected certain plant and animal species for crop cultivation and livestock husbandry around their settle- ments. These were built as solid farmsteads, marking a second type of land use and a completely articial land cover. During plant cultivation, farmers became aware of the uppermost layer of the land, called soil, the quality of which, above all fertility, was indicated by the plant cover. Humans soon learned to determine which sites were best suited for agri- culture - deep sandy to loamy soils that were easy to till. Management began by replacing the natural plant cover with crop plants, usually in pure stands, which involved working the land using tools such as hoes and ploughs. Grain and root crops soon became the mainstay of human food supply, promoting population growth - which again required more farmland: a vicious circle evolved. Cultural development is marked by continuous technical progress involving long-term consequences that were often impossible to foresee. Progress in agri- culture resulted in bigger food quantities than farmers needed. This surplus enabled food to be supplied to a new, non-farming human population that led to urban life and civilisation, causing an irreversible division of rural and urban land use, life- style and mentality. Urban citizens, free from the daily toil of struggling with nature to produce food, developed new ideas and values such as landscape beauty, a love v of nature, and animal welfare. However, these ideas and values are irrevocably tied to reliable daily nourishment, which depends on rural supply. As the urban pop- ulation became aware of this, they started to govern farmers'activities, adjusting them to urban needs and ideas. This culminated in industrialisation and the rapid growth of cities, which induced the intensication and technical modernisation of farming, again conceived by city dwellers, whose standard of living rose to heights never seen before. This achievement was also based on rapid advances in science and technology, which of course also included agriculture and food production. These advances created new attitudes and values towards fundamental aspects of life. Human rights and well-being took centre stage, encouraging further population growth and the greater exploitation of land and its resources. The concept of sustainable devel- opment, which has gained general consent as shown in several international reso- lutions, aims to overcome this dilemma. And yet it takes precise specication to translate this broad, integrative concept into concrete measures, which also holds for land management: which components, resources or functions of land are to be managed in which way at a given location? Since land isnite, its very different qualities renders it necessary to choose sites or locations that are best suited for the various competing land uses, which are only compatible in part. These land uses include farming, forestry, settlement, urban-industrial development, mining, regenerative energy production, nature conservation, leisure and recreation. Sustainable management should seek to adapt land use to a site's qualities, rather than modifying these qualities to suit the land use. In addition, use intensities must be controlled to mitigate ecological deterio- ration, which can also be reduced by consciously designing the spatial arrangement of land uses. The management of rural land is usually prioritised because it supplies the urban population with commodities such as food from grain and root crops. Such crops depend in turn on productive arable soils, and yet these are gradually being dam- aged by crop farming treatments that need to be applied. Since soils are the most precious and vulnerable land resource, a resource that cannot be restored, such negative impacts must be mitigated to the greatest extent possible, particularly since soils now have a new function - the sequestration of CO 2 to combat climate change. All these management measures must be organised by adaptive and participatory governance institutions. It is an enormous challenge that may be helped by the information and proposals given in this book.

Wolfgang Haber

Technical University of Munich

Freising, Germany

e-mail:haber@wzw.tum.de viForeword

Contents

1 A Knowledge-Based European Perspective on Sustainable

Land Management: Conceptual Approach and Overview

of Chapters Thomas Weith, Tim Barkmann, Nadin Gaasch, Sebastian Rogga,

Christian Strauß, and Jana Zscheischler

Part I Land-Use: State and Drivers in Europe

2 Landscape Change in Europe

.............................17 María García-Martín, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Mario Torralba,

Franziska Wolpert, and Tobias Plieninger

3 New Trends and Drivers for Agricultural Land

Use in Germany

4 Demographic Change and Land Use

........................63

Jens Hoffmann

5 Urbanisation and Land Use Change

........................75

Henning Nuissl and Stefan Siedentop

6 Urban-Rural Interrelations - A Challenge for Sustainable

Land Management

.....................................101

Alexandra Doernberg and Thomas Weith

Part II Co-Production of Knowledge

7 Transdisciplinary Research in Land Use Science - Developments,

Criticism and Empirical Findings from Research Practice .......127

Jana Zscheischler

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8 Innovations for Sustainable Land Management - A Comparative

Case Study

Jana Zscheischler and Sebastian Rogga

9 Knowledge Exchange at Science-Policy Interfaces in the Fields

of Spatial Planning, Land Use and Soil Management: A Swiss

Case Study

Marco Pütz and Regula Brassel

10 Serious Games in Sustainable Land Management

..............185

Jacqueline Maaß

11 Real-World Laboratories Initiated by Practitioner Stakeholders

for Sustainable Land Management - Characteristics and Challenges Using the Example of Energieavantgarde Anhalt .....207 Helga Kanning, Bianca Richter-Harm, Babette Scurrell, andÖzgür Yildiz

12 Knowledge Management for Sustainability: The Spatial

Dimension of Higher Education as an Opportunity

for Land Management ..................................227

13 Transcending the Loading Dock Paradigm - Rethinking

Science-Practice Transfer and Implementation in Sustainable

Land Management

.....................................249

Sebastian Rogga

Part III Co-Evolution: New System Solutions and Governance

14 Small-Scale System Solutions - Material Flow Management

(MFM) in Settlements (Water, Energy, Food, Materials) ........269

Peter Heck

15 Multifunctional Urban Landscapes: The Potential Role of Urban

Agriculture as an Element of Sustainable Land Management .....291

16 Integrating Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructure

and Nature-Based Solutions - New Perspectives in Sustainable

Urban Land Management

................................305

Dagmar Haase

17 Upcoming Challenges in Land Use Science - An International

Perspective

Christine Fürst

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