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Urban Green Spaces for Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience
Urban green spaces (UGSs) act as a comprehensive tool for environmental sustainability, regulating the urban ecosystem services and microclimatic conditions, protecting biodiversity, and providing various socio-ecological benefits to urban dwellers. The rapid population increase and haphazard urban growth have reduced the urban green cover, consequently increasing the urban surface temperatures and causing irreversible biodiversity loss. UGSs have a great potential to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects sustainably and air pollution, providing water retention capability and various ecosystem services for ecological sustenance. The present chapter provides a framework for the need for UGSs in rapidly growing cities. It elucidates the integrated three-dimensional approach, including social, economic, and environmental aspects for sustainable utilisation and management of UGSs. Planning strategies like City Master Plans, landscape approaches, government capacity plans, etc., are adapted to manage and develop UGSs. Nature-based solutions effectively contribute to mitigation and adaptation against natural disasters, climate resilience, and societal challenges to impart their endurance in improving the economic, environmental, and social conditions of cities by restoring degraded ecosystems. Moreover, future recommendations with various perspectives considering Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have also been emphasised to ameliorate the increasing pollution in urban areas.
Urban Green Spaces for Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience
Urban green spaces (UGSs) act as a comprehensive tool for environmental sustainability, regulating the urban ecosystem services and microclimatic conditions, protecting biodiversity, and providing various socio-ecological benefits to urban dwellers. The rapid population increase and haphazard urban growth have reduced the urban green cover, consequently increasing the urban surface temperatures and causing irreversible biodiversity loss. UGSs have a great potential to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects sustainably and air pollution, providing water retention capability and various ecosystem services for ecological sustenance. The present chapter provides a framework for the need for UGSs in rapidly growing cities. It elucidates the integrated three-dimensional approach, including social, economic, and environmental aspects for sustainable utilisation and management of UGSs. Planning strategies like City Master Plans, landscape approaches, government capacity plans, etc., are adapted to manage and develop UGSs. Nature-based solutions effectively contribute to mitigation and adaptation against natural disasters, climate resilience, and societal challenges to impart their endurance in improving the economic, environmental, and social conditions of cities by restoring degraded ecosystems. Moreover, future recommendations with various perspectives considering Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have also been emphasised to ameliorate the increasing pollution in urban areas.
Urban Green Spaces for Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience
Nautiyal, Sunil (editor) / Gupta, Anil Kumar (editor) / Goswami, Mrinalini (editor) / Imran Khan, Y. D. (editor) / Kumar, Amit (author) / Ekka, Pawan (author) / Upreti, Manjari (author) / Shilky (author) / Saikia, Purabi (author)
The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change ; Chapter: 23 ; 389-409
2023-09-02
21 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Urban green spaces , Climate Resilience , Disaster risk reduction and mitigation , Nature-based solutions , Environmental sustainability , Planning , And policies Energy , Energy Policy, Economics and Management , Environmental Management , Environmental Economics , Natural Resource and Energy Economics , Environmental Communication , Social Sciences
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