Seascape studies have developed in response to questions arising from composite correlations such as coastal, island and marine research, social requirements, landscape design and planning, marine ecology, and environment and resource management. This global volume is the first comprehensive overview to provide a solid foundation on the concept of seascape, with the latest research findings from leading experts across a variety of fields, offering a holistic approach to seascape linking nature with culture, and theory with practice.
Divided into six parts, it includes over 30 chapters from contributors around the world. Pioneering methods with illustrated case studies from the Mediterranean, Scandinavia, North Sea, North America and Asia serve as examples for future seascape development, conservation and governance.
An important and extremely timely resource, the Routledge Handbook of Seascapes provides academics, practitioners, NGOs, consultants and government officials with a broad overview of current research and practice for future application and advance worldwide.
Introduction to seascape
1 Seascape contexts and concepts
Gloria Pungetti
PART I Seascape and nature
2 Biodiversity, coastal ecosystem restoration and climate change mitigation in action
Hazel Thornton and Chris McOwen
3 The ecoacoustic dimension of seascape
Almo Farina
4 Seascape ecology in an Asian geographical context
Jae-Eun Kim and Rob H.G. Jongman
5 Seascape ecosystem services and small islands
Mario Balzan
PART II Seascape and people
6 Satoumi: prolonged interaction between humans and nature
Katsue Fukamachi and Tsunao Watanabe
7 Marine resources, submerged heritage and local communities in the Subarctic Sea
Ragnar Edvardsson
8 Traditional coastal resources of the indigenous people: resilience and vulnerability assessment
Sean Russell Williams
9 Geographies of migration and new seascapes
Maria Gabriella Trovato
10 Seascape changes in areas of marine protection
Gloria Pungetti, Pierpaolo Congiatu and Amelia Congiatta
PART III Seascape character
11 Characterising seascape’s historic cultural dimension: developing an approach to historic seascape characterisation
Dave Hooley
12 Consolidating the National Historic Seascape Characterisation layer for England
Diana Manson
13 Historic seascape characterisation and the North Atlantic
Oscar Aldred
14 Seascape character assessment in England and Wales
Sally Marshall
15 Seascape character assessment of small islands in the East Mediterranean
Aikaterini Gkoltsiou and Aikaterini Siakavara
16 Biocultural seascape assessment: methodology and tools for the West Mediterranean
Gloria Pungetti, Maria Rosaria Filigheddu and Arianna Carboni
PART IV Seascape design and planning
17 City seascapes: the prospect of Ocean Cities
Timothy Beatley
18 Developing the littoral gradient: speculation or geologic necessity?
Fadi Masoud and Hadi El-Shayeb
19 Reconceptualising coastal rivers and streams: a seascape design and planning approach
Jala Makhzoumi and Salwa Al-Sabbagh
20 A seascape framework: contributions to disaster prevention and tourism development
Misako Matsuba
21 Counteracting urbanization: design and planning for sustainable and resilient seascapes in the Euro-Mediterranean
Emma Salizzoni
22 Socio-cultural values and seascape planning
Maggie Roe and Selina Stead
PART V Seascape policy, management and governance
23 Traditional knowledge in the management of seascapes
Evonne Yiu
24 Volcanic seascapes: disaster recovery for community wellbeing and habitat protection
Merites Merida Buot and Inocencio E. Buot
25 Fragmentation drivers and community education for coastal biodiversity reconstruction
Leajim Ayapana Villanueva, Errol Abada Gatumbato and Arnan Araza
26 The interplay of politics and coastal tourism development
Mona Khechen
27 The dynamic seascape of the North Sea: policy of use and management
Rob Jongman
PART VI Seascape futures
28 Seascape restoration for climate change, resilience and a sustainable future
Sun-Kee Hong
29 Nissology: economy, technology and policy for future sustainable development of seascapes
Hiroshi Kakazu
30 The promise of city seascapes
Timothy Beatley
31 Community voices and the capture of seascape values
Maggie Roe
32 A seascape integrative framework for a way forward
Gloria Pungetti, Dave Hooley and Rob Jongman
Biography
Gloria Pungetti is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Biocultural Landscape and Seascape, University of Sassari, Italy, and Coordinator of the Biocultural Landscape Working Group of IALE International. She is additionally Founder Professor of the Cambridge Centre for Landscape and People and a Senior Member of Darwin College at the University of Cambridge, UK, where she has developed holistic landscape and seascape research collaborating with scholars and institutions worldwide.
