Checklist for sustainable landscape management: final report by Jan D van Mansvelt

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1990; Lungren and Friemel, 1994). To find common ground in the overwhelming range of values and criteria for sustainable land-use and landscape management, the sequence of human needs 30 Outline of a unifying concept from Maslov's triangle is reflected in the approach used here. Starting from sheer survival (Maslov's first stage: food and shelter), via social integration (Maslov's second stage: belonging or acceptance and recognition or appreciation) to cultural development (Maslov's third stage: self-actualisation or identity development).

However, these rates greatly exceed the average rate of soil formation, which is the rate of conversion of parent material into soils. 0 t/ha (Pimentel, 1993), and about 1 t/ha/year in temperate climates (Troeh and Thompson, 1993). 5 cm of topsoil under cropland conditions. From these figures. , 1995; Kabourakis, 1996). Pimentel et al. (1995) calculated the economic costs of soil erosion at 8 $ t/ha/year. This means on a global scale $400 billion per year, which is $70 per person per year. 16 per ton of eroded soil.

Survival of the earth's biosphere is seen as the basis for sustainable food production and thus for societies' survival. In a Dutch policy paper on landscape and countryside planning, the full range of interests mentioned above is addressed with three E's: Ecology (the biosphere). Economy (the socio-economic sphere) and the Aesthetics (the sphere of humanities) (LNV, 1992). In the EU's agricultural policy, the same range of issues is addressed in some way or another (Baillieux and Scharpe, 1994; Baldock and Mitchell, 1995; De Putter, 1995; Giorgis, 1995).

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