Organizing urban ecosystem services through environmental stewardship governance in New York City

Connolly, James J.; Svendsen, Erika S.; Fisher, Dana R.; Campbell, Lindsay K.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.07.001

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“…Ultimately, organizational goals and structures were important in enabling individual staff to realize and reinforce their personal values. In New York City, Connolly and others [23] examined the role of individual "broker" organizations. They describe broker organizations as organizations that have access to numerous pieces of information associated with different groups, allowing them to synthesize large pools of knowledge and to know which groups to connect, how to connect them, and when to connect them.…”

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“…Connolly and others [23] investigated how these stewardship organizations in New York City came to play a broker role, responding to social, economic, and environmental change over a multi-decadal time period. They found that beginning in the 1970s through early 1990s, much of the work on the local environment in NYC was connected to community development efforts designed to help the city and specific neighborhoods recover from the effects of disinvestment and fiscal crisis that resulted from the political, economic and demographic shifts that surfaced in the 1960s.…”

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A Social-Ecological Framework for Urban Stewardship Network Research to Promote Sustainable and Resilient Cities

Romolini

Bixler²,

Grove

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:To realize more sustainable and resilient urban social-ecological systems, there is great need for active engagement from diverse public agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses, natural resource managers, scientists, and other actors. Cities present unique challenges and opportunities for sustainability and resilience, as issues and organizations are frequently intertwined in networks of relations. Understanding and leveraging the range of knowledge types, motivations, skills,

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Section: Lens 1: Organismal/network Organizationsmentioning

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A Social-Ecological Framework for Urban Stewardship Network Research to Promote Sustainable and Resilient Cities

Romolini

Bixler²,

Grove

2016

Sustainability

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“…Approximately three-quarters of articles were published in 2010 or later (Figure 1). The objectives of the majority of articles can be grouped into: (1) the development of conceptual or operational frameworks for systemic understanding of green infrastructure use and innovation [23][24][25][26][27][28]; (2) the investigation of factors, such as policy or planning instruments and the action of stewardship groups, that influence the use and performance of green infrastructure and innovation in the field [16,17,19,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]; and (3) the assessment of the performance of green infrastructure in providing ecosystem services [25,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] (Table 1). Exceptions to this grouping include two articles that described the spatial diffusion of green infrastructure technology [4] or defined sustainability and examined its underlying principles [50].…”

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“…For example, leadership by non-profit umbrella organizations that link smaller groups with public and private funding and provide administrative, training, and advocacy services to smaller groups has been identified as a significant feature in successful green infrastructure programs [16]. This may be because such organizations act as bridge organizations by interacting with a large number of other organizations and occupying structurally important positions in networks [30]. In particular, the role of bridge organizations as intermediaries between public agencies and community groups builds multi-scale capacity into networks that is deemed necessary for the adoption of green infrastructure [17,23,30].…”

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“…This may be because such organizations act as bridge organizations by interacting with a large number of other organizations and occupying structurally important positions in networks [30]. In particular, the role of bridge organizations as intermediaries between public agencies and community groups builds multi-scale capacity into networks that is deemed necessary for the adoption of green infrastructure [17,23,30].…”

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The Socio-Ecological Factors that Influence the Adoption of Green Infrastructure

Tayouga

Gagné

2016

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Green infrastructure is defined as any type of infrastructure that has the purpose of lessening the burden of development on the environment and/or has the aim of providing ecosystem services, such as runoff management, air temperature reduction, carbon sequestration, and habitat provisioning. Despite these potential benefits and a recent increase in popularity, the widespread use of green infrastructure has been limited. To ascertain why this may be the case, we asked: What are the socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure? To answer this question, we carried out a review of the literature. We found 32 papers addressing our research topic, three quarters of which were published since 2009. Based on the results and conclusions of the articles we reviewed, we identify six factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure: Education, the Provision of Ecosystem Services, Financial Incentives, Coordination Among Actors, Laws and Policies, and Planning Recommendations. We present a model of the direct and indirect effects of each factor on the adoption of green infrastructure and investigate the geographic variability of factors. Our results indicate that Education, the Provision of Ecosystem Services, and Financial Incentives are the most influential factors affecting the adoption of green infrastructure because they are supported by the greatest number of articles regardless of location of study and have the greatest number of linkages with other factors and adoption in our model. We conclude with evidence-based strategies to promote the use of green infrastructure in order to create more sustainable environments.

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Linking science and decision making to promote an ecology for the city: practices and opportunities

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Childers

Galvin

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Ecosyst Health Sustain

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Abstract. To promote urban sustainability and resilience, there is an increasing demand for actionable science that links science and decision making based on social-ecological knowledge. Approaches, frameworks, and practices for such actionable science are needed and have only begun to emerge. We propose that approaches based on the co-design and co-production of knowledge can play an essential role to meet this demand. Although the antecedents for approaches to the co-design and co-production of knowledge are decades old, the integration of science and practice to advance urban sustainability and resilience that we present is different in several ways. These differences include the disciplines needed, diversity and number of actors involved, and the technological infrastructures that facilitate localto-global connections. In this article, we discuss how the new requirements and possibilities for co-design, co-production, and practical use of social-ecological research can be used as an ecology for the city to promote urban sustainability and resilience. While new technologies are part of the solution, traditional approaches also remain important. Using our urban experiences with long-term, place-based research from several U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research sites and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Urban Field Stations, we describe a dynamic framework for linking research with decisions. We posit that this framework, coupled with a user-defined, theory-based approach to science, is instrumental to advance both practice and science. Ultimately, cities are ideal places for integrating basic science and decision making, facilitating flows of information through networks, and developing sustainable and resilient solutions and futures.

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Organizing urban ecosystem services through environmental stewardship governance in New York City

Cited by 128 publications

References 40 publications

A Social-Ecological Framework for Urban Stewardship Network Research to Promote Sustainable and Resilient Cities

A Social-Ecological Framework for Urban Stewardship Network Research to Promote Sustainable and Resilient Cities

The Socio-Ecological Factors that Influence the Adoption of Green Infrastructure

Linking science and decision making to promote an ecology for the city: practices and opportunities

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