Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Nature in urban regions : Understanding linkages and benefits to human populations
The future of the world will be urban, with now the largest share of the global population in recorded history living in cities. Urbanization implies a progressive environmental and land-use transformation, from natural ecosystems to artificial materials, shaped by the tension between unregulated organic trends and urban planning. Being the living habitat of most of the current, and likely future generations, growing cities need to remain well functioning, equitable and livable, which includes access to natural areas and the benefits these can provide for urban inhabitants. A key scientific challenge is to understand and quantify these human-nature relationships at scales relevant for cities and urban management. This thesis aims at advancing spatially explicit quantification methods and knowledge regarding accessibility to nature and ecosystem services (i.e. benefits to humans provided by the natural environment) for different urban population groups and in various cities. A main urban study area is the Swedish Stockholm region, while comparative ecosystem service quantifications also extend to and across a large set of European cities. The methods include conceptual developments and spatial modeling for quantification of the targeted urban human-nature relationships. Results show a positive relationship between proximity to green-blue natural areas and income level of urban inhabitants, while dense urban, industrial and commercial areas are less desirable features associated with lower income levels. Income levels also correlate with ethnicity, which thereby also correlates with green-blue area proximity, highlighting an additional spatial segregation perspective for urban regions. A conflict emerging is that people who can afford it choose surroundings with more nature, while further urbanization requires further densification. Care must then be taken not to deplete vital natural areas to the detriment of urban populations, and in particular their less privileged parts. Results also highlight the need to ...
Nature in urban regions : Understanding linkages and benefits to human populations
The future of the world will be urban, with now the largest share of the global population in recorded history living in cities. Urbanization implies a progressive environmental and land-use transformation, from natural ecosystems to artificial materials, shaped by the tension between unregulated organic trends and urban planning. Being the living habitat of most of the current, and likely future generations, growing cities need to remain well functioning, equitable and livable, which includes access to natural areas and the benefits these can provide for urban inhabitants. A key scientific challenge is to understand and quantify these human-nature relationships at scales relevant for cities and urban management. This thesis aims at advancing spatially explicit quantification methods and knowledge regarding accessibility to nature and ecosystem services (i.e. benefits to humans provided by the natural environment) for different urban population groups and in various cities. A main urban study area is the Swedish Stockholm region, while comparative ecosystem service quantifications also extend to and across a large set of European cities. The methods include conceptual developments and spatial modeling for quantification of the targeted urban human-nature relationships. Results show a positive relationship between proximity to green-blue natural areas and income level of urban inhabitants, while dense urban, industrial and commercial areas are less desirable features associated with lower income levels. Income levels also correlate with ethnicity, which thereby also correlates with green-blue area proximity, highlighting an additional spatial segregation perspective for urban regions. A conflict emerging is that people who can afford it choose surroundings with more nature, while further urbanization requires further densification. Care must then be taken not to deplete vital natural areas to the detriment of urban populations, and in particular their less privileged parts. Results also highlight the need to ...
Nature in urban regions : Understanding linkages and benefits to human populations
Goldenberg, Romain (Autor:in)
01.01.2021
13
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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