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Reconciling Cities with Urban Nature: Towards the Integration of Ecosystem Disservices in Inclusive Spatial Planning
Functions and properties of ecosystems delivering discomfort to citizens, also known as ecosystem disservices (EDS) (Döhren and Haase 2015; Lyytimäki 2014) are fundamentally important in terms of interactions between people and urban nature (Dobbs et al. 2014; Escobedo et al. 2011; Lyytimäki 2014; Vaz et al. 2017) and can be at least as important for citizens as ecosystem services (ES). This further leads to the call for the solutions whereas ES as well as EDS are integrated in planning designs delivering comfortable urban environment to citizens (Blanco et al. 2019; Vaz et al. 2017). This however represents a major challenge not only due to many trade-offs, such as choices between space and commercial development benefits vs. ES (Spyra et al. 2020), but also due to conflicting perspectives and preferences of various stakeholder, epistemic and social groups on the very nature of EDS and ES (Shkaruba et al. 2021). We assume that there are at least two compelling reasons for EDS to be addressed by the planning process in its broad sense. This is for urban nature in order to survive, and for citizens in order to benefit from the services it provides. This needs to entail the formulation of multistakeholder consensus over EDS/ES, and ideally to consider the broadest possible variety of interest groups (including age and gender) and possible conflicting perspectives. Working to address this challenge, this research focuses on EDS in urban communities, and explores them in terms of inclusive planning.
Reconciling Cities with Urban Nature: Towards the Integration of Ecosystem Disservices in Inclusive Spatial Planning
Functions and properties of ecosystems delivering discomfort to citizens, also known as ecosystem disservices (EDS) (Döhren and Haase 2015; Lyytimäki 2014) are fundamentally important in terms of interactions between people and urban nature (Dobbs et al. 2014; Escobedo et al. 2011; Lyytimäki 2014; Vaz et al. 2017) and can be at least as important for citizens as ecosystem services (ES). This further leads to the call for the solutions whereas ES as well as EDS are integrated in planning designs delivering comfortable urban environment to citizens (Blanco et al. 2019; Vaz et al. 2017). This however represents a major challenge not only due to many trade-offs, such as choices between space and commercial development benefits vs. ES (Spyra et al. 2020), but also due to conflicting perspectives and preferences of various stakeholder, epistemic and social groups on the very nature of EDS and ES (Shkaruba et al. 2021). We assume that there are at least two compelling reasons for EDS to be addressed by the planning process in its broad sense. This is for urban nature in order to survive, and for citizens in order to benefit from the services it provides. This needs to entail the formulation of multistakeholder consensus over EDS/ES, and ideally to consider the broadest possible variety of interest groups (including age and gender) and possible conflicting perspectives. Working to address this challenge, this research focuses on EDS in urban communities, and explores them in terms of inclusive planning.
Reconciling Cities with Urban Nature: Towards the Integration of Ecosystem Disservices in Inclusive Spatial Planning
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
La Rosa, Daniele (editor) / Privitera, Riccardo (editor) / Skryhan, Hanna (author) / Shkaruba, Anton (author)
International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning ; 2021 ; Catania, Italy
2022-02-26
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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