Savage Gardens: Balancing Maintenance, Aesthetics, and Ecosystem Services in the Biodiversity Crisis Era DOI Creative Commons
Alessio Russo

Urban Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8(4), P. 170 - 170

Published: Oct. 11, 2024

The escalating biodiversity crisis, coupled with the increasing frequency of droughts and anticipated water shortages due to climate change, necessitates a shift towards biodiversity-led landscape architecture, including domestic gardens. Traditionally viewed as high-maintenance spaces emphasising tidiness, gardens can significantly impact urban green infrastructure species richness. This paper explores concept ‘savage gardens’—untamed natural representing fourth nature approach, incorporating wild neglected areas. Despite potential challenges in public appreciation, it is argued that savage offer substantial benefits, such reduced maintenance, increased biodiversity, enhanced resilience change. By reframing perception ‘savage’ from biophobic reconnection nature, are proposed viable solution for balancing aesthetics, ecosystem services, landscapes, promoting more sustainable future face emergency.

Language: Английский

Characterising the Ultimate Ends of Municipal Land Policy: An Analysis of Land Policy Aim Setting in Finnish Municipalities DOI Creative Commons
Pauliina Krigsholm

Planning Theory & Practice, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 17

Published: Jan. 14, 2025

Municipalities engage in solving local to global policy problems. Yet it remains poorly understood how they reconcile and prioritize problems when formulating sectoral policies such as municipal land policy. This article develops conceptual understanding of aim setting investigates the Finnish municipalities. The analysis draws on interviews with representatives key documents. results highlight ambiguities potential conflicts paradoxes municipalities pursue incoherent vaguely expressed aims. Locally embedded issues dominate over sustainability agenda setting.

Language: Английский

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Artificial Intelligence Tools in Environmental Education: Facilitating Creative Learning about Complex Interaction in Nature DOI Open Access
Dana Sachyani, Adiv Gal

European Journal of Educational Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(2), P. 395 - 413

Published: Feb. 20, 2025

This article aims to answer the research question: How do 5th grade students experience use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools create a comic strip describing survival struggle between Myna and Lesser Kestrel? study utilized case-study approach examine advantages challenges experienced by using AI about Kestrel's struggle. Data were collected through qualitative methods, including student reflections, drawings, analyses strips they created. Additionally, questionnaire was used assess students' attitudes towards four components 21st century skills: Creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication. The indicates that development skills among requires collaborative effort involving both parents teachers. It is not sufficient rely solely on technological tools; there must be intermediary processes support from teachers, who are obliged adjust their teaching methods. supports creation future citizen with humanistic outlook awareness complexity life, essential. develops environmental citizenship, which also an important skill. involves integrating ethical, inclusive, holistic perspectives address complex problems, such as Kestrel Myna.

Language: Английский

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Design principles for mainstreaming of nature-based solutions in cities: A proposal for future pathways DOI Creative Commons
Clare Adams, Magnus Moglia, Niki Frantzeskaki

et al.

Nature-Based Solutions, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6, P. 100155 - 100155

Published: July 18, 2024

Examining how city-level governments respond to the coupled climate and biodiversity crises can build an understanding of enable urban sustainability transitions. In this paper, we refer specifically mainstreaming, as approach for embedding novel solutions into governance practice. The focus is better understand nature-based in cities, from perspective processes mainstreaming. Therefore, define a comprehensive mainstreaming framework that built three previous frameworks describe social-institutional elements mainstreaming: actors' roles, institutional spaces, mechanisms. These provide foundations conceptually deepening through organising distils principles key considerations designing new presented paper useful interdependencies different dimensions dynamics by defining overarching be considered factors enabling accelerating This further conceptualised relation pathways designed, other words, mobilised conceptual work illustrated with examples manifest case study forestry across metropolitan Melbourne, Australia.

Language: Английский

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Exploring Diversification Strategies among Italian Farms DOI Open Access
Concetta Cardillo, Luca Bartoli, Marcello De Rosa

et al.

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(20), P. 8856 - 8856

Published: Oct. 13, 2024

The multifunctionality model is receiving more and attention from policymakers as a result of recent initiatives to build resilient sustainable food systems well the potential for increased farm revenue. This paper explores role multifunctional farming in Italian agriculture viewed through lens an entrepreneurial strategy grounded on-farm diversification. Farm diversification strategies, which broaden farm’s traditional boundaries include additional activities at level, help evolution towards multifunctionality. A policy-driven transition has been noticed Italy during past few decades, prompted strategic reconfiguration business models. Drawing on identified activity portfolio diversification, this study provides overview analyzed 49,429 farms, by articulating strategies into four activities, are related on/off-farm/farm-related or farm-diverse strategies. article attempted verify presence types that responded management use cluster analysis data general census agriculture. Supporting new patterns adoption models focused should be considered European rural development policies.

Language: Английский

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Rural Households’ Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Adaptation Strategies in the Case of Begemdir District, Amhara Region, Ethiopia DOI

Endeshaw Yeshiwas Tefera,

Birhanu Bekele Mencho, Baye Terefe

et al.

Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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Savage Gardens: Balancing Maintenance, Aesthetics, and Ecosystem Services in the Biodiversity Crisis Era DOI Creative Commons
Alessio Russo

Urban Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8(4), P. 170 - 170

Published: Oct. 11, 2024

The escalating biodiversity crisis, coupled with the increasing frequency of droughts and anticipated water shortages due to climate change, necessitates a shift towards biodiversity-led landscape architecture, including domestic gardens. Traditionally viewed as high-maintenance spaces emphasising tidiness, gardens can significantly impact urban green infrastructure species richness. This paper explores concept ‘savage gardens’—untamed natural representing fourth nature approach, incorporating wild neglected areas. Despite potential challenges in public appreciation, it is argued that savage offer substantial benefits, such reduced maintenance, increased biodiversity, enhanced resilience change. By reframing perception ‘savage’ from biophobic reconnection nature, are proposed viable solution for balancing aesthetics, ecosystem services, landscapes, promoting more sustainable future face emergency.

Language: Английский

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