Cosmopolitan conservation: the multi-scalar contributions of urban green infrastructure to biodiversity protection

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dc.contributor.authorGrabowski, Zbigniew
dc.contributor.authorFairbairn, Andrew J.
dc.contributor.authorTeixeira, Leonardo H.
dc.contributor.authorFakirova, Elizaveta
dc.contributor.authorAdeleke, Emannuel
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Sebastian T.
dc.contributor.authorTraidl-Hoffmann
dc.contributor.authorSchloter, Michael
dc.contributor.authorHelmreich, Brigette
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-16T06:54:57Z
dc.date.available2023-05-16T06:54:57Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-04
dc.description© The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Version of Scholarly Record of this Article is published in Biodiversity and Conservation, 2023, available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-023-02614-x . Keywords: conservation; ecosystem services; environmental governance; urban green infrastructure; urbanization.
dc.description.abstractUrbanization is a leading cause of biodiversity loss globally. Expanding cities alter regional ecological processes by consuming habitat and modifying biogeochemical and energetic flows. Densifying cities often lose valuable intra-urban green spaces. Despite these negative impacts, novel urban ecosystems can harbor high biodiversity and provide vital ecosystem services for urban residents. Recognizing the benefits of urban ecosystems, cities across the globe are increasingly planning for urban green infrastructure (UGI). UGI as a planning concept can transform how cities integrate biodiversity into urbanized landscapes at multiple scales and contribute to conservation goals. Full operationalization of UGI concepts can also reduce urban energy and resource demands via substituting polluting technologies by UGI, further contributing to the global conservation agenda. Realizing the potential contributions of UGI to local, regional, and global conservation goals requires addressing four inter-dependent challenges: (1) expanding social-ecological-systems thinking to include connections between complex social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS), (2) explicitly addressing multi-level governance challenges, (3) adapting SETS approaches to understand the contextual and biocultural factors shaping relationships between UGI and other causal processes in cities that shape biodiversity, and (4) operationalizing UGI systems through robust modeling and design approaches. By transforming UGI policy and research through SETS approaches to explicitly integrate biodiversity we can support global conservation challenges while improving human wellbeing in cities and beyond.
dc.description.sponsorshipMost of this work was funded by the German Research Foundation through Research Training Group (GRK 2679/1) “Urban Green Infrastructure - Training Next Generation Professionals for Integrated Urban Planning Research.” Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
dc.identifier.citationGrabowski, Z., Fairbairn, A.J., Teixeira, L.H. et al. Cosmopolitan conservation: the multi-scalar contributions of urban green infrastructure to biodiversity protection. Biodivers Conserv (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02614-x
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02614-x
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14096/363
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.titleCosmopolitan conservation: the multi-scalar contributions of urban green infrastructure to biodiversity protection
dc.typeArticle

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