The results have direct implications for urban planners and policy makers, landscape architects and environmental designers and provide guidance for planning, improving and designing successful public places.
When he and Ms. Fenton moved from Sausalito, Calif., to Los Angeles, the first thing they did was hire the Marquis designer, Oliva Villaluz, as well as the hotel's cabinet makers and landscape artist.
In practice, the presented method can be a valuable interdisciplinary decision support for decision-makers and landscape planners.
Our study provided a formal framework to help policy makers identify landscape configurations that most benefit plant conservation policies.
The outcomes of this work provide practical information on the benefits of the urban green spaces for the decision makers and landscape designers.
The comparison of supply/demand ratios and rural urban patterns of ecosystem services can help decision-makers in landscape management in striving for a sustainable balance between resource supply and demand.
Thanks to the continuously emerging assessments as well as studies aiming at evaluation method improvement, policy makers and landscape managers have an increasing interest in integrating ecosystem services into their decisions.
The relative practical ease with which these areas can be selected and maintained means that the protection of forest strips as part of a wider conservation strategy is likely to have particular appeal to policy makers and landscape managers working in the human-dominated tropics.
All human life is there: kids on a school trip, grannies with sandwiches, dog lovers, holiday makers, even a landscape painter.
The produced maps contribute to the negotiation and designation of priority areas with decision makers in (participatory) landscape planning processes to enhance water resources management and to promote resource-saving land use.
The main task of this study was to establish an ESV-based eco-efficiency evaluation index system that can be used by decision makers for sustainable landscape planning and development.
