Architectural Green Infrastructure: Enhancing habitat provision and climate regulation in urban environments using vegetated building envelopes. DOI Creative Commons
Maggie MacKinnon

Опубликована: Июль 3, 2024

<p><strong>As urban environments expand and densify, their destructive habitat loss degradation impacts will continue to worsen the interlinked issues of global biodiversity climate change. While protecting pristine natural habitats remains essential conservation efforts change mitigation, advancing practices reconciliation ecology is crucial addressing within cities. Increasing amount vegetated ecosystem services it provides stopping/reversing species improving resilience in environments. Though current adaptation are restricted by limited ground-level space, building envelopes could present an opportunity utilise abundance envelope surfaces cities for quality supports. This research seeks address gaps knowledge related role play providing quality, connected native while enhancing regulation. Because provision (habitat biodiversity, etc.) rarely measured at same time as regulation (cooling, rainfall management, etc.), relationship between these two has not been well characterised or quantified scale envelopes. The overall goal this identify optimise co-benefits both scales. overarching question is: how can co-beneficial outcomes contribute environments? Site specificity important services; therefore, central Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, was selected a case study thesis. Four endemic birds area were focal due ecological importance. Interviews with local experts first conducted refine methodological approach gain insights into behaviours threats species. With aim diversity living wall cooling management effects, thesis used experimental setup, supplemental simulation research, measure number indicators. connectivity flood mitigation using areas where they most needed, GIS-based spatial analyses assess based on proposed green infrastructure networks. An evidence-based design strategies scales.</strong></p><p>This contributes identifying that walls: (a) plant communities high leaf coverage above-ground biomass; (b) deep, mixed-media substrates; (c) irrigation regimes facilitate transpiration rates. do regulation, several other features identified (fauna pest control) (extra insulation, air gap, vapour barrier, gutters cisterns). At scale, key sites implementing networks enhance found share common characteristics being primary transportation arteries located near outlet watersheds lined mixed-use/commercial buildings. A more holistic designing considers multiple target service performance uptake environments, helping transition biodiverse climate-resilient places. Advancing be change.</p>

Язык: Английский

THE COSMOPOLITICS OF CATS AND WILDLIFE ON CAPE TOWN'S URBAN EDGE DOI Creative Commons
Nicoli Nattrass, Zoë Woodgate,

Benjamin S. Wittenberg

и другие.

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 21, 2025

Abstract Free‐ranging cats are widely tolerated in cities, and animal welfare organizations increasingly allow for ‘trap, neuter release’ (TNR) of unowned cats. We show, using the example a university campus adjacent to national park large metropole, that this has implications cosmopolitics over biodiversity on urban edge. A camera trap survey showed were most abundant medium/large mammal species, some individuals hunted within protected area competed with other native predators. Despite concerns from ecologists biologists (who favoured precautionary approach cat management), policymakers status quo (supporting colonies TNR'd cats), noting useful pest rodent control no extinction threats wildlife evident. This outcome, we suggest, reflects long‐standing multi‐species assemblage humans, rodents cats, appreciation as hunters pets. It also points limits ecological information resolving which species should be allowed flourish. Yet study shows systematic data collection photographic evidence can help render lives visible (including their predators competitors) assist policy deliberation.

Язык: Английский

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Transforming ambition into action to catalyse nature-based solutions: Insights from 250 good practice policy instruments DOI Creative Commons
McKenna Davis,

Natalia B. Cuevas,

Maren H. Gvein

и другие.

Nature-Based Solutions, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6, С. 100171 - 100171

Опубликована: Авг. 16, 2024

Ambition to leverage the power of nature-based solutions (NbS) address global challenges such as interlinked climate change and biodiversity crises has reached unprecedented levels. Despite a growing consensus around potential benefits NbS, this ambition not translated into sufficient actionable progress in practice. Cities, increasingly recognized centres transformative capacity, have become focal point for achieving NbS ambitions. Nevertheless, transition from theoretical discourse practical implementation been slow, with frequently being overlooked until recently political agendas. A key obstacle is lack action-oriented research grounding discussions empirical evidence on policy design application. This paper seeks these knowledge gaps by: (i) defining criteria good practices urban implementation; (ii) assessing instruments Urban Governance Atlas (UGA) against using mixed statistical qualitative methods; (iii) identifying pathways measures promote adoption Drawing diverse UGA examples, particular focus Europe CELAC region, identifies seven practice outlines four related actions guide development across varied contexts. Concrete recommendations aim tap addressing pressing issues.

Язык: Английский

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From “Human-Centered” to “System-Oriented”: Eco-Cultural Legacy of Feng Shui and Scientific Principles for Establishing Modern Resilient Cities DOI
Wenjian Pan

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Shifts in urban ecology: From science to social project DOI Creative Commons
Niki Frantzeskaki, Steward T. A. Pickett, Erik Andersson

и другие.

AMBIO, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 53(6), С. 809 - 812

Опубликована: Апрель 20, 2024

How can urban ecology be better prepared to contribute a comprehensive understanding of cities?And what do world cities need from move toward desired, more sustainable futures?Speaking these questions, all contributions in the Special Section ''Shifts Urban Ecology'' frame contemporary as an ongoing bridging effort; scientific field has broadened and diversified by adopting new perspectives concerns within its scope.From focus on examining nature landscapes how it is valued, understood, stewarded different social groups, expanded ecologically grounded, systemic explorations, including complex dynamics social, institutional, cultural, technological dimensions.This pluralization field, sometimes captured use ''ecologies'' (Nishime Hester Williams 2018; Rademacher et al. 2019;Pickett 2022), been facilitated engagement with many disciplines, such studies, sociology, geography, policy, planning, well infrastructure engineering.This development comes conceptual empirical gains, especially opening inquiry multiple knowledges participatory collaborative research methods.This allowed questions emerge, about situatedness, equality, accessibility, justice ecosystems.The present future ecology, are shaped dialogue collaboration other disciplines (Childers 2015;McPhearson 2016;Crouzat 2018;Pickett 2021).The expansion innovations led formation inter-paradigmatic approaches, opened up for critical examination fundamentals ecology.In this Section, we conceptualize pathways coevolution

Язык: Английский

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Architectural Green Infrastructure: Enhancing habitat provision and climate regulation in urban environments using vegetated building envelopes. DOI Creative Commons
Maggie MacKinnon

Опубликована: Июль 3, 2024

<p><strong>As urban environments expand and densify, their destructive habitat loss degradation impacts will continue to worsen the interlinked issues of global biodiversity climate change. While protecting pristine natural habitats remains essential conservation efforts change mitigation, advancing practices reconciliation ecology is crucial addressing within cities. Increasing amount vegetated ecosystem services it provides stopping/reversing species improving resilience in environments. Though current adaptation are restricted by limited ground-level space, building envelopes could present an opportunity utilise abundance envelope surfaces cities for quality supports. This research seeks address gaps knowledge related role play providing quality, connected native while enhancing regulation. Because provision (habitat biodiversity, etc.) rarely measured at same time as regulation (cooling, rainfall management, etc.), relationship between these two has not been well characterised or quantified scale envelopes. The overall goal this identify optimise co-benefits both scales. overarching question is: how can co-beneficial outcomes contribute environments? Site specificity important services; therefore, central Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, was selected a case study thesis. Four endemic birds area were focal due ecological importance. Interviews with local experts first conducted refine methodological approach gain insights into behaviours threats species. With aim diversity living wall cooling management effects, thesis used experimental setup, supplemental simulation research, measure number indicators. connectivity flood mitigation using areas where they most needed, GIS-based spatial analyses assess based on proposed green infrastructure networks. An evidence-based design strategies scales.</strong></p><p>This contributes identifying that walls: (a) plant communities high leaf coverage above-ground biomass; (b) deep, mixed-media substrates; (c) irrigation regimes facilitate transpiration rates. do regulation, several other features identified (fauna pest control) (extra insulation, air gap, vapour barrier, gutters cisterns). At scale, key sites implementing networks enhance found share common characteristics being primary transportation arteries located near outlet watersheds lined mixed-use/commercial buildings. A more holistic designing considers multiple target service performance uptake environments, helping transition biodiverse climate-resilient places. Advancing be change.</p>

Язык: Английский

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0