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Big plans and little plans: delivering land use change designed by landscape ecology

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2007-12-31
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Stone, D. (2007). Big plans and little plans: delivering land use change designed by landscape ecology. Acta Geographica Debrecina Landscape & Environment Series, 1(1), 68-74. https://doi.org/10.21120/
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In this paper I describe some of the ways in which landscape ecology principles have been incorporated into land use planning and change. In Scotland we have tried developing landscape-scale or regional plans for land use change to resolve issues of habitat fragmentation – the ‘big plans’ of the title. We have also developed ‘little plans’ – much smaller proposals based on individual designated sites. My conclusion is that both of these approaches are weak in directing land use change at the scale necessary, and that a system which ‘scores’ land manager-generated proposals is a more useful new approach.