Land use and land-use change are central to economic and social development but can threaten sustainability. Sustainable land management practices like landscape restoration, low-carbon agriculture, and management techniques offer opportunities to reverse losses and yield financial benefits through improved outputs, ecotourism, and reduced costs. While markets can support landscape sustainability, non-market mechanisms are also needed like public funding, trusts, and land use planning. For long term sustainability, landscapes must endure over time by reusing infrastructure and retrofitting places to foster community and reduce vehicle dependence.

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Economical Sustainability of Landscape
Mohammad Shahadat Hossain
Department of Architecture
Premier University, Chittagong
E-mail: Shahadat.sazu@gmail.com
Abstract
Land use and land-use change are central to the economic and social fabric of World and
essential to the region’s prospects for sustainable development. Countries are realizing that
now, more than ever, is the time for action. Eleven countries, but can these ambitions become
a reality while supporting good living standards and economic sustainability through
landscape
Landscape restoration, landscape management techniques, and low-carbon sustainable
agriculture offer opportunities to reverse some of these losses. Land restoration has the
potential to contribute to improved agricultural yields in degraded lands, contain biodiversity
losses, contribute to increases in carbon stocks, and secure gains in soil and water quality. Can
these processes yield fnancial and economic benefits? The report attempts to answer the
question at a improvements in landscape outputs from sustainable land management
practices.The plantsand non-plantsproducts fromsustainable landscape activities,alongwith
related co-benefits, such as ecotourism, and reductions in natural security costs that can be
monetized. The results indicate that the answer to this question is a resounding
yes—sustainable landscape use and restoration can lead to outstanding financial and
economic benefits.
The analysis and conclusions provided in this report need to be considered as a first but
necessary step to motivate and support decision-making and actions on landscape creation in
the region. Land creation in world is an urgent business.
Introduction: Asset-based Local Development
‘Sustainable economical landscape’ phenomenon is nowadays much more referred as
incorporating wellbeing of natural and cultural landscapes with socio-economic
development. Besides ecological and physical appraisal of urban/ rural/natural environments,
landscape structure and functions have been examined
within the context of the entire natural and cultural dynamics of any region to emphasize a
consistent ‘asset-based local development’. A vast number of natural and cultural factors
particularly challenged widely the sustainability of landscapes as well as traditional-rural
lifestyle, and socio-economic instability has by this means conditioned the emergence of
natural and cultural asset based local development. There are many region in world has
thereby demonstrated its commitment to this sort
of development with its excellence in physical, ecological and socio-economic structures.
Asset-based approach is a way of taking up any subject with its positivist, creative and
inclusive aspects only And its primary objectives, as an indispensable part of the economic

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development process, are to achieve high added value products and services from all kinds
of regional resources and to transform them into local benefits taking into account the
protection and development of natural and cultural landscapes and their properties. To this
end, asset-based economic development is expected to bring high margin of profit to locals,
furthermore much less vulnerability to local assets through using these resources in more
sustainable, creative and innovative ways .Rather than short-sighted and problem-specific
approaches, it underpins long-term local development managing all necessary resources and
instruments in a corporate way. Since the asset-based local development is fundamentally
geared to claim landscape-based socio-cultural and economic prosperity, some scholarly
works featuring ‘integrated landscape management’. Asset-based development as its socio-
economic track was then grounded on its own limited yet unique natural and cultural
resources by means of blocking access of external resources and investments to the country.
Principles of sustainable landscaping
 The typical landscape requires many inputs: time, money, labor, water, chemicals, and
fertilizers. Most homeowners would be happy to reduce the amount of time, money,
and labor that goes into their yards. The environment also benefits from decreased
use of resources such as water, and potentially polluting elements such as chemicals
and fertilizers.
 Our landscapes also create wastes which most of us never think of: plant trimmings
and weeds, polluted runoff from the use of chemicals and fertilizers, and water lost by
evaporation from plants and soils.
 The concept of sustainable landscaping asks us to examine the input and
output of our landscaping and find ways to minimize both
Economic Sustainability In Through Landscape
The economic sustainability of landscapes has often been expressed as the maintenance of
attractive scenery to support tourism and recreation. However, this superficial view, though
not without immediate practical merit, fails to query the desirability or possibility of retaining
nostalgic spaces. Our finest cultural landscapes often exist where mainstream economic
practices have serendipitously created iconic scenery and ecology as an inadvertent side
effect,aswith the EnclosureActsacross the Englishcountrysideduring the eighteenthcentury.
Also, the economic practices that produced them (perhaps during the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries) are increasingly obsolescent and their archaic farming methods can now
only be shored up with taxpayer subsidy. Europe has gone down this route through an
elaborate scheme of macroenvironmental payments that, despite many successes, is still in
tension with World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements and may be no more than a fiscally
unsustainable expedient, temporarily slowing the rate of attrition. At the heart of economic
landscape sustainability lies the notion of a “virtuous circle” in which mainstream endogenous,
spontaneous production spins out landscape benefits that in turn make the local area
attractive for producers to maintain and embed supportive environmental practices. This
synergy has been most fully articulated in relation to specialist food and timber products
that achieve a premium based on distinctive local identity and in relation to the impact of
urban greenspace on property values. However, many unexplored opportunities, both
urban and rural, relate to drivers of landscape change such as housing, energy, and infra-
structure.
Although it is simplest to think of economic landscape sustainability relying on market-
based “change drivers” it is also necessary, in complex modern economies, to
acknowledge the nonmarket mechanisms of public and voluntary patronage. The role of the
wealthy patron has been prominent in gar-

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den and estate design over many centuries and there is little fundamental difference in the
contemporary maintenance of landscape distinctiveness and ecological statusthrough state
intervention and the direct action of “conservation, amenity, and recreation trusts” (CARTs).
Additionally, land use planning mechanisms can enforce landscape amelioration as part of
the development process, and this further distorts the open market (or perhaps rectifies
market failure. However, such interventions will inevitably be spatially uneven and, in a
policy context where almost all landscapes are valuable to at least some “insider” groups,
the character of ordinary/quotidian landscapes will generally rely on spin offs from
mainstream market mechanisms or voluntary action.
The global post-industrial economy integrates diverse parts of the world economically, but at
the local level produces landscapes based only on short-term profits. They unsustainably
increase the segregation of rich and poor and are highly auto-dependent and land
consumptive. However, precisely because post-industrial landscapes have been so placeless,
dominated by generic buildings and non-place-based market logics, the uniqueness of place
andplacemakingmattermorethanever.Within the sea of placelesssameness designbecomes
the prime tool for adding value and economic sustainability to places. Because mobile capital
allows locational flexibility, those with the most choices, the retiring baby boomers and the
young mobile knowledge workers can and are choosing to locate in attractive, distinctive,
diverse places. This market for well-designedplaces provides the opportunity for architects to
weave the green braid. Architects and architecture cannot reform the economic system to
make it more sustainable. But at the local level they can resist its pernicious effects and exploit
its support for placemaking. The challenge for architects is to use design –both at the urban
and architectural scaletocounter the post-industrial landscapeswithplacesthatsustain value,
diversity, and
environmental quality over time.
The abilityof placestoendure,thrive andevolveovertimeis crucial to their abilitytointertwine
the braid’s strands. The more we re-use existing buildings and infrastructure, the less natural
resources we have to consume and the more opportunities we have for meeting a broad
spectrum of social and cultural needs. Yesterday’s less sustainable suburban development
types the malls,officeparks, andcommercial stripsareincreasinglybeingretrofittedintomore
sustainable, more urban places with buildings and spaces that foster communal support,
diversity, and reduced vehicle-miles-traveled. Revitalizing existing places is extremely
important, but so is designing new places that can survive the opening of a new mall,
subdivision, or office park ten miles away. This is where the current post-industrial landscapes
have most failed.
Conclusion
The manifold dimensions of sustainable landscapes raise challenging questions over the
nature of how to design, plan, and manage them. The matter is further complicated by a
variety of traditions and subcultures and by the different scales and concerns of urban and
rural practitioners. However, some common themes emerge around the canons of
sustainability. For example, there is a blurring of traditional urban-rural divides,
characterized by strategic networks of multifunctional greenspaces, environmental service
provisioning, and connective urban fringes. This confluence reflects a growing emphasis on
blue-green infrastructure, not merely based on spurious leftoverspaces, but systematically
promoting settlements that “touch lightly on the earth” and integrate with wider landscape
systems. Thus, sustainable landscape planning may entail creation, reinforcement, and
restoration just as much as protection; it also requires the embedding of political and
economic mechanisms that possess the continuous potential to reproduce valued places.

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On occasion, it may involve recreation and rewilding to promote a “future nature” across
extensive areas and habitat networks, resulting in landscape systems sufficiently large and
intact to be autopoietic, self-sustaining, and adaptable to climate change. Finally, there is an
acknowledgement of the need to “people” landscapes, not only through participatory
processes, but more generally through wider re-engagement between communities and
place, and a deeper professional appreciation of the ways that local landscapes are walked
and talked.
Overall, addressing the sustainable landscape means moving away from “set pieces”
towards systemic integrity based on wisdom and intelligent care
that draw upon both an anthropocentric and an eco-centric discourse. It is quite likely
that such functionally sustainable landscapes will also, serendipitously, come to be seen as
beautiful.
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 Academia.org
 Wikipedia
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