Landsenses Ecology Research Articles

Framework of ecological infrastructure construction based on landsenses ecology: meeting natural and human needs

ABSTRACT Ecological infrastructure (EI) is an essential urban infrastructure that is not only related to ecological resilience but the human needed ecosystem services. However, most studies overlook EI’s multi-functional benefits, especially the importance of residents’ satisfaction. As a typical nature-based solutions (NbS) through ecological engineering, EI construction should abide by the laws of nature and consider the requirements of human well-being. Based on the theory of landsenses ecology (LE), this study proposes a framework, including construction ideas, approaches, principles, and construction flow, to guide the whole process of EI construction, meeting natural and human needs. Moreover, a practice including EI facilities and an Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system construction has been taken in Sangdong, Huizhou, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), China. The practice study indicates that the proposed framework of EI construction can successfully restore the regional ecological environment quality and play a significant role in restoring the black-odorous waterbodies to their original ecological vitality. Secondly, using social surveys to thoroughly analyze residents’ physical, psychological, and cultural perceptions and integrating their visions into the EI design scheme can improve residents’ satisfaction and support human well-being. Besides, IoT technology is helpful for digital EI supervision, dealing with real-time, online, and quantitative benefit evaluation and management. This paper focuses on practical exploration and experience sharing of how EI construction meets natural and human needs, aiming at providing experience and ideas for adequate urban ecological infrastructure (UEI) construction to support human and nature development hand in hand.

Resident Satisfaction of Urban Green Spaces through the Lens of Landsenses Ecology.

Residents' satisfaction of urban green space has been widely detected in living environments around the world. Most previous reports were performed with objective indicators to reflect the characteristics of vegetation and landscapes of residential green space. However, subjective senses as impact factors in the evaluation of residents' satisfaction based on landsenses ecology are scarce. To address this, in this study, physical perception, aesthetic cognition, and psychological cognition as latent variables in a structural equation model were investigated to determine the residents' satisfaction in Xiamen, in southeast China, a famously high green space coverage region. The results indicate that physical perception is the fundamental condition to improve residents' satisfaction, while aesthetic cognition and psychological cognition are the direct factors that influenced residents' satisfaction. Residents exhibit a preference for the residential green space which contains more biodiversity and landscape diversity, a higher biomass, and greater openness. In addition, the residents' perception significantly related to greenspace characteristics. The results provide a scientific basis for urban green space planning and optimization of ecological resources' allocation.

Hyperfeedback: meliorization regulation mechanism towards sustainable development based on landsenses ecology

ABSTRACT The theoretical research and practice of sustainable development based on landsenses ecology are carried out through the overall framework mechanism of meliorization and process regulation. This kind of mechanism is denoted as hyperfeedback mechanism of meliorization towards sustainable development, or hyperfeedback for short. Based on the basic idea of landsenses ecology and meliorization approach, this paper expounds the hyperfeedback and related aspects, puts forward the concept and characteristics of hyperfeedback system, and illustrates a platform framework for the meliorization simulation and management of hyperfeedback system.

Effects of individual and community-level environment components on the subjective well-being of poverty alleviation migrants: the case in Guizhou, China

ABSTRACT Subjective well-being (SWB) is closely related to people’s health especially in the post stages of migration. China completed the poverty alleviation relocation (PAR) of 9.6 million people from 2016 to 2020. In the post-migration stage, the changes appearing on the poverty alleviation migrants’(PAM) perception of the environment and the factors affecting their SWB are both worthy of attention, however, there are few current studies. Landsenses ecology is a science that focuses on the relationship between human perception and the environment. Therefore, based on this existing theoretical framework, this article evaluates the SWB of PAMs and establishes a residential environmental perception evaluation system for PAMs to evaluate their landsense level, then evaluates the environment of the resettlement community, using a hierarchical regression model to analyze the impact of PAMs’ landsense level and community environment on their SWB. The results show that the score of PAMs’ SWB is above the neutral level, but improvement is needed in the affection dimension. Also, there is still room to improve PAMs’ landsense level especially in psychological perceptions. Also, we found psychological perceptions and interpretation of the physical setting at the individual level, and community environment at the community level all have a positive effect on SWB, but interaction effect between the community environment and the individual landsense is not verified. Based on this, this article puts forward policy recommendations for the improvement of PAMs’ SWB, their landsense level, and landsense creation of communities, also for the sustainable development of cities and reference for global PAR.

A Psychological Perception Mechanism and Factor Analysis in Landsenses Ecology: A Case Study of Low-Carbon Harmonious Discourse.

Landsenses ecology has been widely applied in research into sustainable consciousness and behavior and the notion of landsense creation realizes the unity of the macro physical senses and micro psychological perceptions. However, a great deal of current research about landsenses ecology has concentrated on the dimension of the physical senses, while there have been relatively few studies on the dimension of its psychological perception. This paper begins by clarifying the concept of self and explaining out that the psychological perception mechanism of landsense creation represents a process of guiding people to know themselves and realize their ecological self. It then utilizes the example of low-carbon discourse to explore the factors contributing to the resonance of ecological self-vision. Our results show that the perceived self-efficacy, environmental concern and environmental knowledge triggered by ecological discourse are the main factors contributing to the resonance of sustainable vision, thus clarifying the indicators of landsenses ecology at the level of psychological perception. Our purpose is to effectively guide the landsense creation of harmonious discourse and promote people to engage in potentially more sustainable behavior.

Why is the ‘counter-tradition’ room setting harmonious for an ancient village of China? An analysis based on landsenses ecology

ABSTRACT Based on the theory of landsenses ecology, this paper makes a detailed analysis of the architecture pattern of ‘The House of Hundred Rooms’(HHR) in the East Dragon Village, a traditional ancient Chinese village, so as to provide a reference for the research on reasonable land use and sustainable development in modern times. By the principle of the vein-compliance in orientation and bearing in landsense creation, the paper analyses the causes of the north-facing feature and the ‘counter-tradition’ room setting feature lie in the architectural pattern of HHR, revealing that people’s psychological perceptions of orientation and bearing is distinct from the physical one. It points out these features of this building complex are the results of man’s active adaptation to nature on the basis of respecting nature, which together manages to form a process of constructing the harmonious relationship between man and nature during land use. By the principle of the multiscale (trans-scale or cross-scale) spatiotemporal combination in landsense creation, the paper continues to analyze on the pattern of HHR and finds that it has both the function of cultural inheritance and the innovation of adaptation to new environment, which can promote the protection of historical and cultural elements during the course of development, and bring reference for the realization of sustainable development from the perspective of contemporary historical and cultural heritage protection.

Urban spontaneous vegetation helps create unique landsenses

ABSTRACT Non-cultivated, spontaneous vegetation in urban environments plays a key role in supporting urban and rural disturbed ecosystems because of the advantages of low input and low energy consumption. There is a contradiction between such plants and conventional cultivated species in terms of sensory characteristics that could affect people’s acceptance of such vegetated landscapes. Taking the most developed city of China Mainland, Shanghai, as a case study, this work aims to better understand how the public perceive these spontaneous plants in terms of physical and psychological senses based on the recently developed framework of landsenses ecology. Overall, these species activate people with positive senses, such as naturalism and nostalgia. Most people support the importance of their visual aspect, such as colourful fruits/flowers are more important for prompting such species. Our study indirectly supports the idea that the public seem not concern whether plants have soft or hard, smooth or rough tactility in parks. Similarly, people do not make high demands on the plants’ olfactory output. These results may provide a wide range of space for design and management strategies since there are abundant choices. The key influencing factor in our study was ‘childhood living environment’ whereas the commonly related factor ‘level of education’ showed no connection. Based on the framework of landsenses ecology that specifically emphasizes incorporating sensory experience into places, this study may help practitioners connect people’s multi-senses to non-cultivated vegetation and help accommodate a wider range of specific ecological attributes, constraints, priorities and people’s concerns in a more human-centric way.

The application of landsenses ecology in language carriers

ABSTRACT In recent years, the study of ecolinguistics has made great progress in the integration of other disciplines and in discourse analysis. Ecological discourse analysis effectively illustrates the ecological potentials in discourse from a micro-level perspective, but the macro process of these ecological potentials is not clear. In this paper, the macro process of language intervening society is presented by illustrating the landsense creation of language, based on landsenses ecology and taking harmonious discourse as an example. And McNemar test is used to demonstrate the interventional function of anti-fur language in subjects’ psychology and behavior, following the discussion of the hierarchical relationship among fur advertisements, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and ecosystem services. Landsenses ecology and ecolinguistics are disciplines with the vision of realizing the sustainable development of ecosystem and human society, and the macro-intervention process of language can be effectively clarified by the concept of landsense creation in landsenses ecology, which can fully demonstrate the role of language in the sustainable relationship between human beings and other living beings.

‘Mértola, a lab for the future’ as a transformational plan for the mediterranean semi-arid region: A learning case based on landsenses ecology

ABSTRACT Learning cases as Transformational Plans are a tool that is still little explored and that have great potential in the framework of Landsenses Ecology as an emerging discipline. This work presents the project ‘Mértola, a Lab for the Future’ as a learning case of a Transformational Plan in the Mediterranean semi-arid region based on Landsenses Ecology. It is a project of agroecological transition, adaptation to climate change and desertification combat that places the local community leadership in the planning of a more sustainable and resilient future. The paper proposes Transformational Plans as a tool to promote networks for the sharing of technical-scientific, political and practical/lay knowledge enhancing a people-centred and place-based change. The learning case methodology follows an analysis showing a set of good governance practices for sustainability, through six transformation domains: access to natural ecosystems, knowledge and culture, systems of exchange, networks, equity, and discourse. Results show a strong articulation between the learning case and the UN 2030 Agenda, highlighting SDGs location and territorialization practices. This kind of projects, which strongly connects with governance and its multilevel and territorial translation, have a great potential for the Landsenses Ecology, contributing to innovate in governance approaches. The same place-based approach could be used and replicated by other territories in the Mediterranean semi-arid region to develop their Transformational Plans for accelerating transformation towards more sustainable territories.

Landsenses ecology approach for comprehensive assessment of cultural ecosystem services: preferences of students at Ankara University of Turkey

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate and spatially represent university students’ perception of cultural ecosystem services in the urban public space of Ankara, Turkey in relation to the ‘landsenses ecology’ framework. A questionnaire survey was administered to randomly selected students studying landscape architecture at Ankara University via the Google Forms electronic survey. For mapping, the Urban Atlas Project 2018 data were used to show the connection between CES and the land-use types. A hot-spot map was created for spatial assessment of CES using Kernel density estimation. Within the study area, the students marked 87 favourite places. The city centre (Kızılay) was marked as the most significant place to visit by the students. Yet, the majority (63%) of the participants marked an urban green space as their favourite place. Spending time with family and friends was the most selected activity in the rankings with a mean score of 4.90 (SD = 4.10). The hot-spot map indicated that grey infrastructure areas generate CES values as well. Within the perspective of landsenses ecology – where psychological and cultural perception is emphasized – understanding and identifying these values and their specific localizations can be useful in urban landscape management, especially to encourage young people’s involvement in daily urban space.

Green days in the Park: a case study on Landsenses Ecology

ABSTRACT One of the most discussed issues on the contemporary scene, when it comes to territory, cities and citizens is that of the revitalization of urban spaces through social innovation activities. These are projects designed to create a bottom-up network, that is, starting from the realities that are really active on the local territory and linked by a common goal, that of an active protection of such territories, making them “alive” and usable by citizens of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, without affecting the ecosystem balances. The project “Green days in the Park of Lama Balice” has had as general objective the dissemination of the culture of sustainability and the awareness of the population on the issues of environmental protection, on the relationship between human beings and nature, with particular attention to the waste cycle and to the opportunities offered by proper management and disposal with a view to reduction, recovery and recycling. These are based on ecological principles together with the analysis framework of natural elements, physical senses, psychological perceptions, socio-economic perspectives, process-risk, and associated aspects, as characteristic elements of Landsenses Ecology which includes, among other aspects, also those relating to risks, such as biological and socio-economic ones, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. This can represent a response to the health emergency with the improvement of psychophysical and emotional well-being by providing sustainable well-being for communities and maintaining, improving and increasing the resilience of ecosystem services.

An approach of landsenses ecology and landsenseology in Greece

ABSTRACT This paper proposes an approach for identifying and evaluating Landsense ecology and Landsenseology. The case study focuses on proper management of land uses in the wider area of Florina in Greece and on improving the inhabitants’ quality of life. The two novel concepts are associated with the preservation and further improvement of living conditions in the city. The carrier that is used is the land coverage of the wider area of the city. The methodological approach relies on ecosystem services derived from land cover. The aim is to describe the spatial distribution of basic ecosystem services, their interactions and to investigate whether they generate statistical correlations with various characteristics of the city. An analysis of twelve variables is carried out based on a hectare scale that covers the city and its surrounding area. The adopted scale is very large for such research and the relationships between variables are explored with Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Results reveal that the distribution of variables is determined by current social conditions, existing ecological structures and by past decisions. The outcome indicates that PCA can be an important tool that enables speedy processing of large quantities of data concurrently. The relationship between sustainable development and ecosystem services is analyzed in a different way and is projected into the future. This is effectively achieved by the validation of the thematic intervention routes. It is the first time the terms Landsense ecology and Landsenseology are used in Greece in order to explore a specific problem and provide appropriate answers.

Analysis on ecological aesthetics based on landsenses ecology – an ancient case of China

ABSTRACT With the rapid social-economic and science development, and the improvement of people’s cognitive level and demand, it is urgent to further study the relationship between human and ecosystem. Landsenses ecology is a comprehensive discipline, a bridge which links ecosystem services and sustainable development. Based on the analysis of the relationship between the principle of landsenses creation and the ecological aesthetics experience, as well as the practice of Chinese traditional culture, this paper preliminarily presents a framework of applying landsenses ecology to explore ecological aesthetics. The principles of landsenses creation have many manifestation forms similar to Chinese traditional culture. Chinese classical landscape poems is a kind of carriers for ancient Chinese people to present their cultural manifestations with their simple ecological view, which shows their simple ecological thoughts, sustainable development consciousness and corresponding vision at that time. The paper discusses the manifestation forms of Chinese traditional culture, and systematically analyzes the landsense creation ways and the spatiotemporal scales in the two poems, Out of the Great Wall (凉州词in Chinese) and On the Stork Tower (登鹳雀楼in Chinese). These two poems combine the ecosystem elements organically, integrate visual landscape with psychological perceptions, and reflect the ecological aesthetics through the combination of landscape spatiotemporal scales, as well as the interactivity of physical senses and psychological cognitions. The approaches of landsenses ecology can expand the cultural ecosystem service in a spatiotemporal way, and contribute to deeply integrate traditional culture with ecological civilization to promote sustainable development.

Method for the evaluation of residents’ perceptions of their community based on landsenses ecology

A comprehensive evaluation including residents’ physical, psychological and cultural perceptions of their community can better guiding initiatives to improve community construction. Landsenses ecology is an emerging discipline which emphasizes the combination of the environment and human’s subjective perceptions and provides a theoretical basis for the comprehensive assessment of the perceptions of community residents. In this study, a three-level evaluation system of residents’ perceptions was constructed based on landsenses ecology and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, including physical perceptions (1st level), psychological perceptions (2nd level), and cultural perceptions (3rd level). Additionally, a comprehensive perception index was established based on a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. By evaluating the residents’ perceptions of five typical communities in the city of Xiamen, China, it was found that the cultural perceptions of residents had significantly lower index scores than their physical and psychological perceptions, that is, the higher the perception level is, the more difficult it is to realize the residents’ demands. The results conform to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the proposed perception levels based on landsenses ecology and verify the rationality of the present method for evaluating the residents’ perceptions of their community. These findings could provide a scientific basis for community planning and management.

Parking lot evaluation from the perspective of natural elements, physical senses, and psychological perceptions

ABSTRACT With the increase of civil vehicles, the parking lot has become one of the necessary infrastructures in urban construction in China. Furthermore, the dramatic changes of people’s cognitive ability and needs require innovative methods of parking lot analysis. Landsenses ecology provides new ideas for parking lot evaluation. Through the visual interpretation of images in Google Earth, we extracted the information of the ground parking lots on Xiamen Island. From the perspective of natural elements, physical senses, and psychological perceptions, we selected the infiltration performance, the human comfort, and the landscape aesthetics as evaluation criteria to analyse the constitutive characteristics of the ground parking lots. We constructed comprehensive evaluation index from the three criteria, and evaluated the parking suitability of the ground parking lots. There were ecological problems with the ground parking lots, and more than 82% of the ground parking lots cannot meet people’s demands for better urban environment. This study suggests that landsenses ecology has potentials of broader applications for parking lot evaluation.

Progress in landsenses ecology research and applications: an introduction

ABSTRACTThis special issue is the first systematic introduction to the progress of landsenses ecology and its applications since its formation in 2016. As a people-oriented, science-technology-based emerging discipline, landsenses ecology connects our physical senses with digital sensors, and balances the local and global considerations of ecosystem services and sustainable development. The progress in landsenses ecology research and applications covered by the 14 papers in this special issue is preliminary but outstanding. In particular, this special issue clarifies fundamental concepts, introduces technical methods, and demonstrates application cases of landsenses ecology. These efforts may help people with different cultural and disciplinary experiences consistently identify and apply this new scientific discipline.

Visitors’ perception based on five physical senses on ecosystem services of urban parks from the perspective of landsenses ecology

ABSTRACTUrban parks not only improve the urban ecology but also provide cultural ecosystem services to city dwellers. This study investigated the relationship between cultural ecosystem services provided by urban parks and visitors’ perception of urban park from the perspective of landsenses ecology. A perceptual indicator system was developed following the analysis of landsense elements among the park elements, for four sensory dimensions. A perceptual assessment model was established using the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) method, which could be used to divide the perceptual indicators into five grades. We found that the importance level of perceptual indicators was influenced by the type of park elements and the functional area of the visitors’ sensory apparatus. On the one hand, park elements that are common or can be perceived easily receive more attention. On the other hand, among the distance receptors, wider functional area might be related to the higher importance level of the perceptual indicators; the immediate receptors also have considerable influence on perception since visitors contact with the environment directly through these. The most important indicators were related to vision and touch, including ‘vision of plants’, ‘vision of water’, ‘feel of sunlight’, ‘touch of roads’, and ‘sound of animals’. Furthermore, we conducted an assessment on landsense satisfaction of a typical urban park in Beijing, suggesting ways to improve visitors’ perception of urban parks from the perspective of landsenses ecology. The assessment showed that the urban park design and management practices could be improved to increase visitors’ satisfaction.

Ecological protection for natural protected areas based on landsenses ecology: a case study of Dalinor National Nature Reserve

ABSTRACT The global environment has been worsening, and governments around the world have realized that the establishment of natural protected areas is one of the important ways to achieve sustainable development. Natural protected areas are spatial carriers for protecting biodiversity, natural resources and cultural heritages, and play a vital role in achieving regional ecological security. Combined with the evolution rules of the complex ecosystem, this article establishes the protection framework and optimizes the protection strategies of natural protected areas with landsenses ecology as the main theoretical basis. Taking Dalinor National Nature Reserve as an example, protection strategies are analyzed from three aspects, namely protection objectives, protection contents and protection measures. Based on the three-zone management model of natural protected areas, the Internet of Things (IoT) is used to help managers better understand various data indicators of the residents, resources and rare species in natural protected areas; mix-marching data platform is used to conduct data analysis and quantitative evaluation. By doing so, protection strategies can be carried out through a process of melioration.

Optimal visual perception in land-use planning and design based on landsenses ecology

ABSTRACTLand-use planning and design (LPD) is one of the most critical passways toward sustainable development. LPD without thorough considerations can cause many problems, such as disharmony between people’s perception and nature, the chaos of spatial patterns, and the misuse of land resources. Landsenses ecology, a discipline based on natural elements and people’s perception, provide scientific basis to guide LPD. Here we summarized the state-of-the-art concept of optimal visual perception based on conventional optical theory and contemporary visualization technology. Instead of solely using an artistic design perspective to sum up experience, we combined human binocular visual angle and distance with the field of view (FOV) of cell phone cameras to determine an optimal visual perception. We explained the rationality of the concept of optimal visual perception with three examples, located at the Institute of Urban Environmental (IUE) from Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Welcoming-Guests Pine on Huangshan Mountain, and the Sunlight Rock of Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, China, respectively. Both landsenses involving the IUE and Welcoming-Guests Pine satisfy the required conditions for optimal visual perception, whereas the Sunlight Rock shows the chaos of near and far landscapes, which is not compatible with the optimal visual perception. At the end of this paper, we provide pieces of advice on applying optimal visual perception to land-use planners and architects as well as sustainability scholars.

Planning and design based on landsenses ecology: the case study of Chongming Island Landsenses Ecol-industrial Park

ABSTRACT The Chongming Island Landsenses Ecol-industrial Park is a demonstration park which integrates many kinds of industrial functions to realize the scientific development of clean energy and ecological agriculture, including photovoltaic power generation, freshwater aquaculture, and sightseeing agriculture. In order to establish an Ecol-industrial park with an intergrowth between production process and ecological construction, resource utilization and green development, as well as industrial function design and landsense creation, this study aims to plan and design the landsenses of the Chongming Island Landsenses Ecol-industrial Park based on the landsenses idea of ‘the sun-moon shine together on the five continents’ and the technology of Environmental Internet of Things. The Chongming Island Landsenses Ecol-industrial Park incorporates various industrial models and areas, including an ecological photovoltaic demonstration area, a landsenses ecology demonstration area, and a Popular Science recreation area, which would create a demonstration park for the industrialization of ecological resources, the ecologicalization of industries, and the characteristic services of landsenses. This study addresses the value-added services of ecological asset and the integration of industry in the traditional industrial park, and provides a theoretical and technical demonstration of industrial planning and landsense design for other industrial parks in the future.