Evaluating Socio-Ecological Interactions for the Management of Protected Urban Green Spaces

Zambrano, Luis; Cano‐Santana, Zenón; Wegier, Ana; Arroyo-Lambaer, Denise; Zúñiga‐Vega, J. Jaime; Suárez, Antonio; Bouchain, César Rafael; Sill, Fernando Gual; Campo, Julio; Ortega-Larrocea, María del Pilar; Fonseca, Alejandra; Ramos, Alejandra; Coronel‐Arellano, Helí; Bonilla-Rodríguez, Manuel; Castillo, Alicia; Negrete-González, Marcela; Ramírez‐Cruz, Gonzalo A.; Pérez-López, Javier; Calderón, Brenda González

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2019.00144

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“…Therefore, due to the impact of UGS on the environmental quality of residential areas, as Zambrano et al [119] and Mofrad and Ignatieva [120] stated, a socio-ecological approach must be considered to provide new strategies and guidelines to improve UGS quality to attract people. Studying and identifying these variables and incorporating them into UGS planning is vital to promote residential areas' social and ecological sustainability.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring International Perspective on Factors Affecting Urban Socio-Ecological Sustainability by Green Space Planning

Teimouri,

Karuppannan,

Sivam

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Urban green space (UGS) is one of the most important components of urban systems to create sustainable cities. This crucial urban element performs many social and ecological functions to facilitate a better quality of life for urban residents. The main aim of this study is to identify the most critical factors contributing to cities’ social and ecological sustainability through UGS planning and development. To achieve this aim, an integrated socio-ecological approach was followed to collect and analyse the data, which comprised context analysis and an international experts survey. Therefore, firstly, the main influencing factors for urban social and ecological sustainability that can be achieved by UGS planning were extracted by reviewing the related literature. In the next step, to find the most critical factors, an online international survey of academicians and experts drawn from a number of countries was conducted. Based on the experts’ opinions, twenty-two factors out of sixty-five, including twelve social factors and ten ecological factors, achieved the highest scores. According to the results, the key factors of accessibility from the social sustainability category and protection from the ecological sustainability category play the most important roles in maximising the social and ecological benefits of UGS.

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confidence: 99%

Exploring International Perspective on Factors Affecting Urban Socio-Ecological Sustainability by Green Space Planning

Teimouri,

Karuppannan,

Sivam

et al. 2023

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“…Finally, control cosmopolitan and introduced plant species in the urban green spaces with scrub vegetation via remotion. Effective management of urban green spaces will allow the conservation of native flora and fauna [60], as well as interspecies interactions, even in small fragments embedded in the city.…”

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confidence: 99%

Who removes seeds in a heavily urbanized area?

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Rocha‐Ortega

Coronel‐Arellano

et al. 2022

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In urban landscapes, granivores play a key ecosystem service: they contribute to the establishment of plants and thereby increase the probability of vegetal community recovery. It is therefore a priority to determine how and by whom seeds are removed, which seeds are removed and where they are removed. Our objective here was to determine the removal patterns in three core zones of an urban reserve, three urban parks, and three peri-urban parks, all in and around Mexico City. We performed a selective exclusion experiment with treatments for each type of seed consumer (ants, birds, and rodents) and seeds of nine plant species. Ants were the most important granivores in terms of seed removal (especially small seeds), followed by rodents and birds. Seeds of the native plants Passiflora subpeltata, Pittocaulon praecox and Opuntia joconostle had higher removal rates than other exotic and cosmopolitan species. The urban reserve had higher rates of seed predation compared to the urban and peri-urban parks. Thus, ants are pivotal in keeping seed removal and vegetation communities. We propose a series of measures to promote the ecosystem function of seed removal and increase plant diversity in these different urban patches.

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“…It is also used for photographic expositions and guided visits, as well as local festivities that draw people from the nearby research centers to the site and help to secure its existence (see Electronic Supplementary Material and http://www.geologia.unam.mx/contenido/geopedregal). It is the first "pedregal remanente" of the University campus with a whole program of restoration, which is protected by the University laws (Zambrano et al 2019).…”

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“…Now they host the last natural areas and the country´s main university, providing multiple ecosystem services to the city (habitat provision for endemic plants and animals, mitigation of flooding and damage by earthquakes, source of building and ornamental stones, water filtration and storage, recreation, outdoor sport, culture, identity, science knowledge and education). The conservation of the open lava surface is particularly important for sustainability as its destruction through its coverage by cement, constructions or impermeable, exotic soils reduces drastically its capacity of infiltration, and hence preserving the original landforms is important for preserving water resources that may be fundamental in the future (Canteiro et al 2019;Zambrano et al 2019). In the UNAM campus alone, the cost of conserving open green areas with exotic tree species and lawn is very large in terms of water for irrigation, whereas the natural ecosystem sustains itself through the natural capacity of the lava to store water and the low requirements of water by endemic plants (Camarena-Berruecos 2010).…”

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Xitle Volcano Geoheritage, Mexico City: Raising Awareness of Natural Hazards and Environmental Sustainability in Active Volcanic Areas

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The conservation of geosites in a region can foster its sustainability and develop geotourism. These geosites provide geoeducation, raise people's awareness on natural hazards and increase their resilience. Low-income cities located in tectonically active areas combine high geohazards with high vulnerability and low sustainability. Geosites in these cities should be a tool to decrease people's vulnerability and foster sustainable development. Mexico City is an ideal case study for its environmental and social issues and its setting in an active 2 continental volcanic arc. The 1,700 yrs-old Xitle volcano, located in the city's SW corner, is a small scoria cone that erupted once, feeding an extensive lava field on which >600,000 people now live. The lavas are very well exposed due to thin soils and extensive quarrying.The Xitle lavas covered the first urban center in the Mexico basin, except for the main pyramid that has become a major archeological site. The cone and lavas have significant geodiversity, sustaining a unique and biodiverse ecosystem. The country's largest university preserves the lavas in an ecological reserve. We describe four exceptional geosites, assess their values, and discuss their relevance for addressing issues such as nature preservation, environmental sustainability, social inequalities, and natural hazards. The Xitle volcano provides a wide range of benefits for the city that are nonetheless unknown to its inhabitants.We describe ongoing initiatives to disseminate such information, such as the Geopedregal site, and propose ways that this heritage could be further protected and used by the city in a sustainable way.

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Evaluating Socio-Ecological Interactions for the Management of Protected Urban Green Spaces

Cited by 10 publications

References 81 publications

Exploring International Perspective on Factors Affecting Urban Socio-Ecological Sustainability by Green Space Planning

Exploring International Perspective on Factors Affecting Urban Socio-Ecological Sustainability by Green Space Planning

Who removes seeds in a heavily urbanized area?

Xitle Volcano Geoheritage, Mexico City: Raising Awareness of Natural Hazards and Environmental Sustainability in Active Volcanic Areas

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