Barriers and opportunities for resilient and sustainable urban forests

Nature Cities, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 28, 2025

Language: Английский

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Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature

Published: March 25, 2025

In an increasingly urbanized world, urban biodiversity is people's primary contact with nature. However, as cities expand and densify, green blue spaces their are under pressure, risking declines in liveability. This Review discusses the benefits of multiple challenges it faces, identifies opportunities pathways towards developing sustainable, biodiverse for both humans The substantial biological richness that areas can harbour helps to mitigate environmental pressures, address adapt climate change, human health well-being. challenged by competition space, pressures declining engagement residents Understanding underlying mechanisms informs efforts create maintain high-quality blue–green infrastructure. Biodiversity-sensitive socially inclusive governance planning key biodiverse, cities. Urban policies should move cross-sectional approaches coordinate sectors such health, education, design. Developing shared environments nature contributes global conservation offers solutions social faced underpins ecosystem services cities, but faces from activities, nature, inadequate systems. provided biodiversity, its promotion conservation.

Language: Английский

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Greening up the City with Native Species: Challenges and Solutions

Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(1), P. 56 - 56

Published: Jan. 16, 2025

Urban green spaces provide many benefits, including to human wellbeing, ecosystem services, and urban wildlife. Thus, there are reasons up spaces, especially by using native species. Furthermore, suited enhancing biodiversity without negatively impacting food or fiber production. Municipalities private landowners invest substantially in landscaping its maintenance. However, much of that outlay supports non-native plants may be less adapted local conditions such as rainfall patterns temperature ranges, thus having greater resource requirements, well being supportive wildlife possessing a potential becoming invasive. Here, we explore ways increase the use plant species settings reduce need for watering chemical application, enhance support species, risk invasion ex-urban habitats. We identify three main impediments: perception aesthetically pleasing, availability nursery industry, willingness policymakers take measures. propose methods address all three, providing successful examples from number US localities case study demonstrates what drivers might exist actions remain taken.

Language: Английский

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Usages, perceptions and preferences of wild and traditional park types in Chinese mega cities: A case study from Shanghai

Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 128689 - 128689

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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A new tool to characterise the socio-environmental dimensions of urban rivers: Urban river socio-environmental index

Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 261, P. 105388 - 105388

Published: May 2, 2025

Language: Английский

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Mapping wild nature areas to identify priority areas for urban rewilding in cities: A process-oriented approach

Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 128549 - 128549

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Perceptions of urban rewilding in a park with secondary succession vegetation growth on lake silt: landscape preferences and perceived species richness

Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 128648 - 128648

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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