Ecological Rationality in Spatial Planning: Concepts and Tools for Sustainable Land-Use Decisions (Cities and Nature)

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Contents
1 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants—Reviving Ecological Approaches in Planning Traditions
	1.1 Introduction and Outline of the Book
	1.2 Reviving and Renewing Ecological Approaches in Planning Traditions
	References
2 The Concept of Ecological Rationality and Its Application to Spatial Planning
	2.1 Definition(s) of Rationality
	2.2 Different Forms of Rationality and the Current Primacy of Economic Rationality
	2.3 The Different Forms of Rationality and Spatial Planning
	2.4 Ecology, Ecosystems, and Landscapes—Definitions and Main Concepts
	2.5 The Concept of Ecological Rationality
	References
3 Bridging the Gaps: Connecting Spatial Planning with Land-Use Science and Political Ecology
	3.1 Ecological Rationality Principles in Planning Structures and Processes
	3.2 The Inherent Incapacity of Current Decision-Making Systems to Pursue Ecological Rationality
	3.3 Land-Use Science, Political Ecology, and the (Missing?) Link with Spatial Planning
	3.4 Landscape Ecology and Spatial Planning
	3.5 Wrap-Up
	References
4 Towards a Conceptual Framework for Ecological Rationality in Spatial Planning
	4.1 The Proposed Conceptual Framework for Ecological Rationality in Spatial Planning
	4.2 Understanding the Drivers of Landscape Transformation (1): Social Metabolism and the Metabolic Rift
	4.3 Understanding the Drivers of Landscape Transformation (2): Production and Overproduction of Space and the Spatial Fix
	4.4 Towards a Unified Framework of Ecological Rationality and Reconfiguration of Space
	4.5 Processes of Landscapes’ Reconfiguration: Expansion, Intensification and Simplification in Urban and Rural Areas
		4.5.1 Urban and Suburban Areas
		4.5.2 Rural Areas
	References
5 A Closer Look to Processes of Territorial Transformations in Europe: Urbanization, Agricultural Intensification and Land Abandonment
	5.1 Recent and Ongoing Macro-processes of Territorial Transformation in Europe
	5.2 Urbanization in the EU in the Frame of Post-political Planning
		5.2.1 Agricultural Intensification and Land Abandonment
	5.3 Wrap Up and Ways Forward—Bringing the Politics in Again
	References
6 Policies and Regulatory Frames in the EU and the Needed Link with Spatial Planning
	6.1 The EU Policy Frame and Spatial Planning
	6.2 The Habitat Directive and the Water Framework Directive
		6.2.1 The Habitat Directive
		6.2.2 The Water Framework Directive
	6.3 The European Biodiversity Strategy, MAES and Green Infrastructure as a Spatially Explicit Approach to Integrate Ecosystem Services and Spatial Planning
		6.3.1 Ecosystem Service and Spatial Planning: A Trendy Topic in Need of Some Critical Reflections
		6.3.2 Green Infrastructure in the EU—An Approach to Operationalize Ecological Rationality in Spatial Planning?
	6.4 The Common Agricultural Policy and the Rural Development Policy: Towards a Possible Territorialization
		6.4.1 CAP and Rural Development Policy: A Basic Glossary
		6.4.2 CAP as an Hybrid Territorial Policy—Spaces of Integration with Spatial Planning
	References
7 Conclusions and Ways Forward: Five Propositions for Bringing Back Ecological Rationality in Spatial Planning
	7.1 The Ways Forward: What Do We Need to Equip Planning and Planners to Deliver Ecological Rationality
Epilogue
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