Integration across Scales: Landscape as Infrastructure for the Protection of Biodiversity
2023-01-09
作者：Kongjian Yu
来源：in John Beardsley (Editor), Designing Wildlife Habitats, 2013: 241–71
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- 摘要：
- the issue of biodiversity conservation is not about individual species; it is about how to save the earth as a life-support system and as a living system itself. A holistic understanding and protection of a species’s wide range of habitats, instead of protecting isolated natural areas, will ensure long-term environmental sustainability. The rapidly expanding human demand for agricultural and urban land requires the protection of a vast network of integrated natural habitats. How can we minimize land consumption and enhance spatial pattern planning and design so that urbanization can coexist with natural processes and biologically diverse habitats? The solution is identifying and planning for what I term “security patterns,” defined as safeguards for individual natural processes that can be combined in an integrated landscape pattern called “ecological infrastructure.” Such infrastructure is strategically important in sustaining ecosystem services, including the provision of life-support systems for biodiversity.
文章来源：Kongjian Yu , Integration across Scales: Landscape as Infrastructure for the Protection of Biodiversity[M]. in John Beardsley (Editor), Designing Wildlife Habitats, 2013: 241–71, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., Printed in the United States of America.
