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Urban systems keep growing worldwide with different intensities and characters. As a direct consequence, peripheries increase in number, typologies, and complexity, and their growth is highly dependent on local territorial and socioeconomic conditions. Particularly in peri-urban areas, landscapes underwent fast socioeconomic transitions that have deeply modified their territorial assets and land uses. Forests, agricultural and seminatural areas in peri-urban contexts have been affected by processes of urban developments that heavily modify the provision of ecosystem services. Urban development has produced discontinuous and low-density patterns so that outside the main city, the landscape is characterized by a strong fragmentation of farmlands, forests, seminatural areas, and strong mixes of urban and non-urban land uses.

Planning approaches are required to deal with complex drivers of urban and landscape development to achieve a sustainable growth of peri-urban landscapes and maintain the current provision of ecosystem services. This chapter outlines the main characteristics of peri-urban landscapes and introduces a set of planning topics, solutions, and approaches that are under the lens of current applied research of sustainable planning. Examples from recent literature of such approaches are presented, along with a discussion about their potentials, uncertainties, limitations, and trade-offs about the usability and effectiveness in reaching a better level of sustainability.

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  1. Department Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Daniele La Rosa

  2. Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Davide Geneletti

  3. Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Dept. Sustainable Landscape Development, Martin Luther University Halle, Halle, Germany

    Marcin Spyra & Christine Fürst

  4. Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Christian Albert

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La Rosa, D., Geneletti, D., Spyra, M., Albert, C., Fürst, C. (2018). Sustainable Planning for Peri-urban Landscapes. In: Perera, A., Peterson, U., Pastur, G., Iverson, L. (eds) Ecosystem Services from Forest Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74515-2_5

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