Desert dreamscapes: Residential landscape preference and behavior

Larsen, Larissa; Harlan, Sharon L.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.06.002

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“…However, the green English style picturesque or 'park' gardens (20.1 %) (Szilagy 2011) and the gardenesque-or Victorian gardens (Ignatieva 2010)-both garden types with lawns, shrubs and trees (and in the Victorian gardens flower beds with usually exotic flowers) together make up for 35.3 % of the yards in Phoenix. These gardens add biodiversity to the otherwise native desert environment, but bring along many sustainability problems like water shortages (Larsen and Harlan 2006;Martin 2008;Larson et al 2009;St. Hilaire et al 2010;Smetana and Crittenden 2014) and pollution through the higher use of pesticides and herbicides in lawns (Khachatryan and Zhou 2014;Smetana and Crittenden 2014).…”

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“…This green character adds higher levels of diversity to the whole Phoenix region (Martin 2008). However, lush and green gardens in a desert environment are time, fertilizer, costs-and water intensive (Zube et al 1986;Nassauer 1995;Larsen and Harlan 2006). More than 70 % of the household-water in Phoenix is spent on watering lawns like the ones prevailing in Phoenix High (Mee 2011).…”

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“…Cornelis and Hermy 2004;Gaston et al 2005;Hope et al 2006;Baker and Harris 2007;Burghardt et al 2008;Loram et al 2008;Martin 2008;Kendal et al 2012), or on factors that influence human choices and preferences for certain types of yards (Nassauer 1995;Larsen and Harlan 2006;Larsen and Swanbrow 2006;Lyytimäki et al 2008;Larson et al 2009;St. Hilaire et al 2010;Zheng et al 2011;Heezik, et al 2012;Kurz and Baudains 2012;Uren, et al 2015).…”

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“…Hilaire et al 2010;Zheng et al 2011;Heezik, et al 2012;Kurz and Baudains 2012;Uren, et al 2015). Although urban residential landscapes and domestic gardening preferences, values and drivers are increasingly studied in the context of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation (Miller and Hobbs 2002;Gaston, et al 2005;Larsen and Harlan 2006;Mathieu et al 2007;Loram et al 2008;Galluzzi et al 2010;Goddard et al 2010;Larson et al 2010;St. Hilaire et al 2010;Chowdhury et al 2011;Zheng et al 2011;Cook et al 2012;Heezik et al 2012;Kurz and Baudains 2012) there is still much to be learned on how cultural elements and human preferences represented in domestic gardens (e.g.…”

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“…Through a combination of observational field-visits, photo-analyses and literature study (Noss 1990;Costanza et al 1997;Opschoor 1998;Bolund and Hunhammar 1999;Hermy and Cornelis 2000;Savard 2000;Nunes and van den Bergh 2001;Appleton 2002;Groot et al 2002;McKinney 2002;Nagendra 2002;Spellerberg and Ferdor 2003;Zerbe et al 2003;Cornelis and Hermy 2004;Gaston et al 2005;Keylock 2005;McNeely et al 2005;MEA 2005;Larsen and Harlan 2006;Baker and Harris 2007;CBD 2007;Hart 2007;Norton and Noonan 2007;Loram et al 2008;Lyytimäki et al 2008;Martin 2008;Sukopp 2008;Dearborn and Kark 2009;TEEB 2009;Caro 2010;Galluzzi et al 2010;Hancock 2010;Larson et al 2010;Müller et al 2010;St. Hilaire, et al 2010;Tzoulas and James 2010;Beatley 2011;Farinha-Marques et al 2011;Müller and Kamada 2011;Cook et al 2012;Jaganmohan et al 2012;Jim 2012;Jorgensen and Keenan 2012;Kendal et al 2012;…”

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BIMBY’s first steps: a pilot study on the contribution of residential front-yards in Phoenix and Maastricht to biodiversity, ecosystem services and urban sustainability

Beumer

Martens

2015

Urban Ecosyst

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Large parts of urban space around the world exist of small-scale plots such as domestic gardens. These small-scale urban spaces carry potential for enhancing biodiversity, sustainability and ecosystem services in and beyond cities. However, domestic gardening and residential garden designs are often guided by aesthetics and ease more than by the aim to create habitat and biological diversity. Yard-management decisions impact socio-ecological systems in various ways, for example through irrigation patterns, fertilization or the use of pesticides or through the choice for exotic species that may become invasive over time. Yardmanagement decisions can also positively influence the presence of pollinators, improve soil quality or even foster small scale 'Wildlife Habitats' that can function as ecological stepping stones to the wider environment. In this paper a pilot assessment is presented of the contribution of residential front-yards in Phoenix (Arizona) and Maastricht (The Netherlands) to biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability by applying the BIMBY (Biodiversity in My (Back) Yard) framework.

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European Pension Funds and Sustainable Development: Trade‐Offs between Finance and Responsibility

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Pension funds try to account for sustainable development in their operations. This mainly translates in responsible investing. We investigate how this interacts with the financial objectives. We use a survey among more than 250 pension funds based in 15 European countries. Multinomial logistic regression is used to find out how pension funds trade off sustainable development and financial objectives. Our findings suggest that pension funds that have not included responsibility in their strategy and investments have a clear priority for financial performance, whereas pension funds who integrate sustainable development in their strategy can bring balance between finance and responsibility.

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Carbon lost and carbon gained: a study of vegetation and carbon trade‐offs among diverse land uses inPhoenix,Arizona

McHale

Hall

Majumdar

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Human modification and management of urban landscapes drastically alters vegetation and soils, thereby altering carbon (C) storage and rates of net primary productivity (NPP). Complex social and ecological processes drive vegetation cover in cities, leading to heterogeneity in C dynamics depending on regional climate, land use, and land cover. Recent work has demonstrated homogenization in ecological processes within human-dominated landscapes (the urban convergence hypothesis) in soils and biotic communities. However, a lack of information on vegetation in arid land cities has hindered an understanding of potential C storage and NPP convergence across a diversity of ecosystem types. We estimated C storage and NPP of trees and shrubs for six different land-use types in the arid metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona, USA, and compared those results to native desert ecosystems, as well as other urban and natural systems around the world. Results from Phoenix do not support the convergence hypothesis. In particular, C storage in urban trees and shrubs was 42% of that found in desert vegetation, while NPP was only 20% of the total NPP estimated for comparable natural ecosystems. Furthermore, the overall estimates of C storage and NPP associated with urban trees in the CAP ecosystem were much lower (8-63%) than the other cities included in this analysis. We also found that C storage (175.25-388.94 g/m ) and NPP (8.07-15.99 g·m ·yr ) were dominated by trees in the urban residential land uses, while in the desert, shrubs were the primary source for pools (183.65 g/m ) and fluxes (6.51 g·m ·yr ). These results indicate a trade-off between shrubs and trees in arid ecosystems, with shrubs playing a major role in overall C storage and NPP in deserts and trees serving as the dominant C pool in cities. Our research supports current literature that calls for the development of spatially explicit and standardized methods for analyzing C dynamics associated with vegetation in urbanizing areas.

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Desert dreamscapes: Residential landscape preference and behavior

Cited by 210 publications

References 15 publications

BIMBY’s first steps: a pilot study on the contribution of residential front-yards in Phoenix and Maastricht to biodiversity, ecosystem services and urban sustainability

BIMBY’s first steps: a pilot study on the contribution of residential front-yards in Phoenix and Maastricht to biodiversity, ecosystem services and urban sustainability

European Pension Funds and Sustainable Development: Trade‐Offs between Finance and Responsibility

Carbon lost and carbon gained: a study of vegetation and carbon trade‐offs among diverse land uses inPhoenix,Arizona

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