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Chapter 19
Linking Landscape Planning and Health
Stefan Heiland, Julia Weidenweber, and Catharine Ward Thompson
Abstract Aims and measures in landscape planning often align with aims for positive health outcomes, even if these are not explicitly mentioned in the planning
documents. This chapter examines whether, and if so how, health issues are already
being tackled in formal and informal landscape planning instruments in Germany
and the UK at present and how this could be enhanced in the future. Thus, the focus
is on planning issues, practice and methods. In addition, health-promoting features
of green spaces, regarding both single green spaces and entire green space systems,
are considered, as well as a method for planning greenway systems for daily physical mobility. Addressing health issues in landscape planning is a necessary part of
sustainable planning in order to be able to cope with future developments, such as
increasing climate change impacts and accelerating societal changes. For this reason, interdisciplinary corporation between landscape planning and the health sector
should be strengthened.
Keywords Landscape planning · Open space planning · Local plans · Health
promotion · Greenways for mobility · Green infrastructure
Highlights Integrating health issues into landscape planning holds manifold benefits for both sides.
• Potentials to include health issues in landscape planning are not yet fully used.
• Considering human health in landscape planning can be done in different ways
and with different intensities.
S. Heiland (*) · J. Weidenweber
Department of Landscape Planning and Development, Technische Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany
e-mail: stefan.heiland@tu-berlin.de; julia.weidenweber@googlemail.com
C. Ward Thompson
OPENspace Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
e-mail: c.ward-thompson@ed.ac.uk
© The Author(s) 2019
M. R. Marselle et al. (eds.), Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate
Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02318-8_19
Chapter 19
Linking Landscape Planning and Health
Stefan Heiland, Julia Weidenweber, and Catharine Ward Thompson
Abstract Aims and measures in landscape planning often align with aims for positive health outcomes, even if these are not explicitly mentioned in the planning
documents. This chapter examines whether, and if so how, health issues are already
being tackled in formal and informal landscape planning instruments in Germany
and the UK at present and how this could be enhanced in the future. Thus, the focus
is on planning issues, practice and methods. In addition, health-promoting features
of green spaces, regarding both single green spaces and entire green space systems,
are considered, as well as a method for planning greenway systems for daily physical mobility. Addressing health issues in landscape planning is a necessary part of
sustainable planning in order to be able to cope with future developments, such as
increasing climate change impacts and accelerating societal changes. For this reason, interdisciplinary corporation between landscape planning and the health sector
should be strengthened.
Keywords Landscape planning · Open space planning · Local plans · Health
promotion · Greenways for mobility · Green infrastructure
Highlights Integrating health issues into landscape planning holds manifold benefits for both sides.
• Potentials to include health issues in landscape planning are not yet fully used.
• Considering human health in landscape planning can be done in different ways
and with different intensities.
S. Heiland (*) · J. Weidenweber
Department of Landscape Planning and Development, Technische Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany
e-mail: stefan.heiland@tu-berlin.de; julia.weidenweber@googlemail.com
C. Ward Thompson
OPENspace Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
e-mail: c.ward-thompson@ed.ac.uk