The Design of an Urban Open-space Network for the City of Durban (South Africa)

Roberts, Debra

doi:10.1017/s0376892900024024

Cited by 36 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Smaller municipalities manage their informal spaces as a mandate of community services, with budgets and staff in common with waste management and infrastructure development, and often have no specific policy to inform land use or greening decisions (see also [91]). In economic hubs with various land use pressures, municipalities have incorporated open space mapping systems such as the DMOSS [92][93][94], BOSMAP [82], and the ESMP [80] to prioritise conservation and development. Environment departments in these hubs coordinate collaboration across various stakeholders including developers, town planners, district and provincial departments, NGOs, and citizens with the explicit aim of sustainable land use management, including conservation and restoration.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential

Sardeshpande

Shackleton

2020

PLoS ONE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Gathering of uncultivated food from green spaces, also known as foraging, is observed in urban areas across the world, but the literature focuses predominantly on the global north. Our study examines the existing urban land management structure and its approach to urban foraging in the eastern coastal region of South Africa. Through interviews with municipal officials in nine cities, we identified different stakeholders and their roles in urban green space management. We then used network analysis to represent interactions and influence of these stakeholders, and environmental worldviews to determine organisational and perceptual barriers to and enablers of foraging in urban green spaces. The policy on urban green space management, as well as land managers themselves are amenable to the concept of foraging in public spaces. Lack of knowledge on wild indigenous species and sustainable offtake, ambiguous, coarse, or lacking policy, and normative views of pristine nature may hinder foraging. We recommend pathways for policy and stakeholder partnerships to incorporate sustainable foraging in their biodiversity conservation and land stewardship strategies.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential

Sardeshpande

Shackleton

2020

PLoS ONE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…2300 km 2 , and is inhabited by a human population exceeding 3 million (Roberts, ). This urban landscape includes 46 nature reserves that form part of the Durban Metropolitan Open Space System (D'MOSS; Roberts, ). Durban falls within the Indian Ocean Coastal Belt biome of South Africa (Mucina et al ., ), and the vegetation in the city's gardens, parks and reserves includes savanna, grassland and forest.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Light pollution at stadiums favors urban exploiter bats

Schoeman

2015

Anim Conserv

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Artificial night lighting by humans may destabilize ecosystems by altering lightdependent biological processes of organisms and changing the availability of light and darkness as resources of food, information and refuge. I tested the hypothesis that urban exploiters should be more likely to utilize bright, unpredictable light pollution sources such as sport stadiums and building sites than urban avoiders. I quantified insectivorous bat activity and feeding attempts at seven sport stadiums under light and dark treatments using acoustic monitoring of echolocation calls. Species richness estimators indicated that stadium inventories were complete. Activity and feeding attempts were significantly higher at lit stadiums than dark stadiums, irrespective of season or surrounding human land use. Bats exhibited species-specific differences in utilization of stadiums. As predicted, four urban exploiters -Chaerephon pumilus, Tadarida aegyptiaca, Otomops martiensseni and Scotophilus dinganii -dominated activity and feeding attempts at lit stadiums, yet one urban exploiter -Mops condylurus -was associated with dark stadiums. Activity levels at both dark and light stadiums were negatively correlated with peak echolocation frequency. Landscape-scale and finer scale abiotic variables were poor predictors of bat activity and feeding attempts. My results suggest that in addition to abiotic processes associated with urbanization, light pollution at sport stadiums may homogenize urban bat diversity by favoring selected urban exploiters.

show abstract

“…Streams are usually the template for retained systems of habitat in managed forests because they provide a rich habitat for wildlife while also acting as buffers to minimize sedimentation and protect water quality in streams (Harris 1984;Recher et al 1987;Darveau et al 1995;Dickson et al 1995). Similarly, stream systems are the focus of many urban conservation links (Adams and Dove 1989;Little 1990;Smith 1993;Roberts 1994). Protection of urban streamside habitats provides recreational opportunities and improves water quality; and, where the streamside habitats are broad and well-managed, they also maintain wildlife in the developed suburban landscape and provide continuity between urban and outer-urban nature reserves.…”

Section: Integration With Other Programmes In Sustainable Land Managementioning

confidence: 99%

Linkages in the landscape : the role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation

Bennett¹

2003

566

469

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Linkages in the Landscape IUCN'S FOREST CONSERVATION PROGRAMMEIUCN's Forest Conservation Programme coordinates and supports the activities of the IUCN Secretariat and members working with forest ecosystems. The goal of forest conservation is achieved through promoting protection, restoration and sustainable use of forest resources, so that forests provide the full potential range of goods and services.The programme makes contributions to policy at various levels and uses field projects to derive lessons to feed into the policy debate. The principles of Caring for the Earth, published jointly by IUCN, WWF and UNEP in 1991, are applied to these projects, which combine the needs of conservation and those of local communities. One major activity is to develop coherent and informed policies on forest conservation in order to advocate the translation of policies into effective actions. IUCN frequently advises major development institutions on forest issues, to ensure that conservation priorities are adequately addressed in their projects and programmes. The Forest Conservation Programme receives generous financial support from the Government of the Netherlands. The IUCN Forest Conservation Programme Linkages in the Landscape The Role of Corridors and Connectivity in Wildlife Conservation Andrew F. BennettSchool of Ecology and Environment Deakin University -Melbourne Campus, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia IUCN -The World Conservation Union 2003The designation of geographical entities in this book, and the presentation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IUCN or Environment Australia concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of IUCN or Environment Australia. This publication has been made possible in part by funding from Environment Australia. Reproduction of this publication for educational or other non-commercial purposes is authorized without prior written permission from the copyright holder provided the source is fully acknowledged.Reproduction of this publication for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without prior written permission of the copyright holder.Citation: Bennett, A.F. (1998Bennett, A.F. ( , 2003 When this volume was produced four years ago the title was prescient indeed -as the Vth World Parks Congress has selected more or less the same title for its first workshop stream ("more or less" because the workshop title is "Linkages in the landscape/seascape)". In fact, we are better thinking of the term "earthscape", which can be defined as a group of interconnected ecological systems. Earthscape also avoids the linguistic complications of trying to translate landscape into the common parlance of European, let alone global languages.The Secretariat of the linkages stream for the Vth World Parks Congress, together with the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management,...

show abstract

The Design of an Urban Open-space Network for the City of Durban (South Africa)

Cited by 36 publications

References 6 publications

Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential

Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential

Light pollution at stadiums favors urban exploiter bats

Linkages in the landscape : the role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About