| 1. |
- Fagerholm, Nora, et al.
(författare)
-
Analysis of pandemic outdoor recreation and green infrastructure in Nordic cities to enhance urban resilience
- 2022
-
Ingår i: npj Urban Sustainability. - : Springer Nature. - 2661-8001. ; 2:1
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent empirical research has confirmed the importance of green infrastructure and outdoor recreation to urban people’s well- being during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, only a few studies provide cross-city analyses. We analyse outdoor recreation behaviour across four Nordic cities ranging from metropolitan areas to a middle-sized city. We collected map based survey data from residents (n = 469–4992) in spring 2020 and spatially analyse green infrastructure near mapped outdoor recreation sites and respondents’ places of residence. Our statistical examination reveals how the interplay among access to green infrastructure across cities and at respondents’ residential location, together with respondents’ socio-demographic profiles and lockdown policies or pandemic restrictions, affects outdoor recreation behaviour. The results highlight that for pandemic resilience, the history of Nordic spatial planning is important. To support well-being in exceptional situations as well as in the long term, green infrastructure planning should prioritise nature wedges in and close to cities and support small-scale green infrastructure
|
|
| 2. |
- Grilo, Filipa, et al.
(författare)
-
A trait-based conceptual framework to examine urban biodiversity, socio-ecological filters, and ecosystem services linkages
- 2022
-
Ingår i: npj Urban Sustainability. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2661-8001. ; 2
-
Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Maximizing the functional performance of urban green infrastructure is important to deliver critical ecosystem services that support human well-being. However, urban ecosystems are impacted by social and ecological filters that affect biodiversity, shaping how species’ traits are functionally expressed, thus affecting ecosystem services supply. Our Social–Ecological Traits Framework addresses the impacts of socio-ecological systems on the phenotypic expression of traits and ecosystem services delivery. This functional approach to examining the supply of ecosystem services can improve the incorporation of biodiversity knowledge in urban planning decisions for maximizing the effectiveness of ecosystem services as nature-based solutions under multiple types of social and environmental change.
|
|
| 3. |
- Metson, Geneviève S., 1988-, et al.
(författare)
-
Towards net-zero phosphorus cities
- 2022
-
Ingår i: npj Urban Sustainability. - : Springer Nature. - 2661-8001. ; 2:1
-
Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cities are central to improving natural resource management globally. Instead of reinventing the wheel for each interlinked sustainability priority, we suggest synergising with, and learning from existing net-zero carbon initiatives to explicitly tackle another vital element: phosphorus. To achieve net-zero phosphorus actors must work together to (1) minimise loss flows out of the city, (2) maximise recycling flows from the city to agricultural lands, and (3) minimise the need for phosphorus in food production.
|
|
| 4. |
- Raymond, Christopher
(författare)
-
Obituary: Professor Jari Niemela 1957-2022
- 2022
-
Ingår i: npj Urban Sustainability. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2661-8001. ; 2
-
Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
|
|
| 5. |
- Schröter, Barbara, et al.
(författare)
-
Beyond Demonstrators—tackling fundamental problems in amplifying nature-based solutions for the post-COVID-19 world
- 2022
-
Ingår i: NPJ Urban Sustainability. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2661-8001. ; 2
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are currently promoted as a panacea for improving human-nature relations. Yet the way of amplifying and mainstreaming NbS beyond scientific demonstrator projects into policy contexts is still bearing shortcomings, in particular in the uncertain futures of a post-COVID-19 world. Successful NbS amplification may be achieved by (1) using multi-scalar action to balance differing interests and reconcile governance levels, (2) providing financial and other institutionalized incentives and strategies for integrated participation processes, (3) using appropriate governance and management scales effectively integrating mediators, (4) using opportunities for transformative change offered by crisis, and (5) learning from worldwide amplification experiences.
|
|
