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landscape ecology has developed a suite of pattern metrics and indicators which can
be used for quantifying sustainability in a geospatially explicit manner. Finally,
landscape ecology provides both theoretical and methodological tools for dealing
with scaling and uncertainty issues that are fundamental to most nature-society
interactions.
To move forward, future landscape ecological studies need to further address the
key research topics as discussed earlier in this entry. In addition, concerted efforts
need to be made to focus on sustainability-related research questions. For example,
what theories, principles, and methods of landscape ecology are pertinent to
sustainability and how can they be operationalized? How does landscape pattern
or spatial heterogeneity affect sustainability? How do ecological, economic, and
social patterns and processes in landscapes change with scale and interact to
influence sustainability? How is landscape sustainability measured and what roles
can landscape metrics play in all this? How can landscape models to project
sustainability trajectories in response to environmental, economic, social, and
institutional changes be developed? And finally, how can landscape ecology help
design sustainable landscapes?
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