Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale

Dennis, M, Scaletta, KL and James, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-3953 2019, 'Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale' , PLoS ONE, 14 (7) .

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Abstract

Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sharing (sprawl) and land-sparing (compaction) scenarios. Using three of the ten districts in 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 sharing and sparing. We do so for the landscape as a whole and in a more focussed approach for areas of high and low urbanity. Results imply potential trade-offs between land-sharing-sparing 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 are 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-sharing and sparing strategies.

Item Type:	Article
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
Related URLs:	Publication
Depositing User:	Professor Philip James
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2019 11:08
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2022 09:31
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/51847

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