Exploring desired urban futures: the transformative potential of a nature-based approach

Futures, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 159, С. 103362 - 103362

Опубликована: Март 22, 2024

Amidst multiple crises and calls for transformative change, the demand to reassess human-nature relationships has increased. Rethinking future of cities is vital in this process, yet positive urban visions prioritizing nature beyond human-centred perspectives are lacking. To address gap, we propose a "nature-based desired futures" approach envisaging building collective discussion around change. We explore four concepts underpinning (i) why such alternative futures needed (human-nature disconnect changing imaginaries) (ii) how they might be approached (transformative change leverage, 'education desire'). This provides basis participatory that adapts Three Horizon method 2050. Six workshops involving 111 participants linked 'Conexus', project on nature-based solutions European Latin American cities, explored emerging futures, evolving ideas nature, relationships, agency. The offers space reflection creative exploration, weaving together new, hopeful, caring, emancipatory stories. Its effectiveness hinges mutually reinforcing power deep structural, systemic enabling approaches, give purpose direction exploration futures.

Язык: Английский

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Non-linear responses and critical thresholds of human well-being to ecosystem services across land-use intensities in urbanizing areas

Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 114, С. 107921 - 107921

Опубликована: Март 22, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature

Опубликована: Март 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.

Язык: Английский

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Wilding cities for biodiversity and people: a transdisciplinary framework

Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 99(4), С. 1458 - 1480

Опубликована: Март 21, 2024

ABSTRACT Accelerating urbanisation and associated lifestyle changes result in loss of biodiversity diminished wellbeing people through fewer direct interactions experiences with nature. In this review, we propose the notion urban wilding (the promotion autonomous ecological processes that are independent historical land‐use conditions, minimal human maintenance planting interventions) investigate its propensity to improve people–nature connections cities. Through a large interdisciplinary synthesis, explore mechanisms which can promote cities, attitudes relations city dwellers towards wild spaces, discuss integration into fabric cities governance. We show favouring assembly spontaneity by reducing interventions, functional limiting practices, plant diversity provide resources for numerous organisms at habitat scales. These could reverse biotic homogenisation, but further studies needed understand effects on invasive species their consequences. From socio‐ecological perspective, spontaneous vegetation modulated successional stages, grassland woodland stages preferred, dense shrubby disliked. Wild spaces diversify physical nature, enrich multi‐sensory, affective cognitive nature However, some aspects cause anxiety, feeling unsafe, perception abandonment. negative be mitigated subtle design interventions. While has long been thought as ornamental instrumental help develop relational intrinsic values Wildness singular aesthetics should combined cultural norms, resident uses functions plan spatial configurations promoting human–non‐human cohabitation. For socially just adapted needs residents, implementation backed inclusive governance opening up discussion forums residents workers. Scientists support these collaborating actors experiment new

Язык: Английский

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Planning and managing urban green infrastructure for human health: perspectives on collaboration and implementation from four Nordic cities

Socio-Ecological Practice Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2025

Abstract While there is substantial research connecting urban green infrastructure (UGI) with human health and well-being (HH&W), less known about how responsible actors address this relationship in practice. Based on interviews four Nordic cities, study examines UGI planning, management, public practitioners’ perceptions of their work, as well perceived barriers support for working the UGI-HH&W nexus. The revealed that HH&W was not addressed in-depth by either planners or managers, but instead seen one many general arguments safeguarding from development. Public strategists conversely had a broader view presented examples strategic approach to cross-sectorial collaboration. Planners managers face similar challenges, more positive among development within organisation. In contrast, are primarily deeply concerned challenges results further present range coordination efforts, including both formal groups experimental approaches. However, policy implementation mismatch development, accompanied lack long-term perspectives. These two can be understood together, where understanding management would provide an opportunity increase sustainability current planning investment practices. A aligned offers path future well-being.

Язык: Английский

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The why, how, and what of indicator-based monitoring of nature-based solutions: Perspectives from EU and LAC city practitioners

AMBIO, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 22, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Causes, Impacts, and Risk Reduction of Flooding from Heavy Metal-Mixed Wastewater:A Case Study in San Mateo Atenco, Mexico

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 105517 - 105517

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Change and driving factors of eco-environmental quality in Beijing green belts: From the perspective of Nature-based Solutions

Ecological Indicators, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 166, С. 112581 - 112581

Опубликована: Сен. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Monitoring and assessment in the context of Governance of Nature-based Solutions. Shared Challenges and Opportunities in CELAC and EU cities

Nature-Based Solutions, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6, С. 100170 - 100170

Опубликована: Авг. 17, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?

AMBIO, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 53(8), С. 1136 - 1151

Опубликована: Март 15, 2024

This paper assesses how strategic planning for nature can be improved England's built and natural environment using mainstreaming landscape-scale concepts. Whilst both concepts feature in academic literature, there has been limited attention on their role as catalytic agents planning. Addressing this gap, evidence is used from two stakeholder workshops involving 62 senior policy experts managing a range of operational hypothetical spatial challenges. The results reveal significantly weakened arena characterised by disintegration, short termism uncertainty. Key findings highlight the fallacy pursuing isolation wider integration fusing environmental, economic social components outset. Current barriers to progress include institutional inertia, technocratic vocabularies neoliberalist priorities exacerbated weak underlying theory. Conversely opportunities processes may help knowledge generation exchange within transdisciplinary partnerships, whilst landscape scale thinking improve understanding issues natures inherent geometry transforming outcomes. recommends adoption pathways approaches working tandem. focused English context, our are transferable other systems Global North, especially those championing neoliberal market led policies.

Язык: Английский

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