Dennis, M, Scaletta, KL and James, P 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-3953
2019,
'Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity'
, PLoS ONE, 14 (7)
, e0215796.
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Abstract
Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sparing (compaction) and land-sharing (sprawl) scenarios. Using part of Greater Manchester (UK) as a case-study, we present a landscape approach to mapping green infrastructure and variation in social-ecological-environmental conditions as a function of land sparing and sharing. We do so for the landscape as a whole as well as for areas of high and low urbanity. Results imply potential trade-offs between land-sparing-sharing scenarios relevant to characteristics critical to urban resilience such as landscape connectivity and diversity, air quality, surface temperature, and access to green space. These trade-offs may be particularly complex due to the parallel influence of patch attributes such as land-cover and size and imply that both ecological restoration and spatial planning have a role to play in reconciling tensions between land-sparing and sharing strategies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools: | Schools > School of Environment and Life Sciences > Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre |
| Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS ONE |
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
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| Depositing User: | USIR Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2019 09:29 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2022 01:42 |
| URI: | https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/51092 |
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