Landscape Resilience at Risk—Forest Plantations as an Answer?

Natural hazards regimes are changing worldwide due to climate and land use change. The resulting risks manifest themselves at the landscape scale and can, at least in theory, be mitigated at this scale through spatial planning. In this context, forest plantations are a widespread strategy for strengthening landscape resilience. However, there are still unanswered questions regarding the suitability of this strategy, both practical and theoretical. An empirical case that is also interesting for the German spatial planning system is Chilean Patagonia. On the one hand, this is an area which, unlike Germany, has always been subject to a wide range of natural hazards, and on the other, an instrument similar to the German system has recently been introduced. This chapter explains the problems, underlying theoretical discourses, the context of the empirical studies and the structure of the book.