Poster by Danny Tröger¹
¹ University of Kassel, Germany
TIME: Thursday, 16 July, 12:00 – 13:15
Location: Break Room
Session: Poster Session
Abstract
Landscape resilience is highly endangered worldwide, even in so-called last wilderness areas in higher latitudes, and especially in the Global South. Sometimes, countermeasures are attempted in spatial planning, for example through spatial planning areas, an instrument that is particularly characteristic of Germany and is sometimes adopted by countries in the Global South. Using the example of the Aysén region in Chile, we evaluate the potential of regional plans to contribute to landscape resilience using a combination of performance and conformance approaches. Reserved areas for agroforestry appear promising at first glance. They are defined in the regional plan as areas for which subsidies are to be obtained under Decree 701, a measure dating back to the Pinochet era. These subsidies are responsible for the deforestation of native forests and their transformation into pine monocultures, with devastating ecological and social consequences. Traditional agroforestry practices, on the other hand, are ignored, even though they would have high environmental performance and high social acceptance. The instrument of land zoning and, above all, the reserved areas for agroforestry thus threaten to become a Trojan horse for even more pine plantations, thereby not only reducing but further weakening the contribution of spatial planning to landscape resilience.