Urban ecological novelty assessment: Implications for urban green infrastructure planning and management

Teixeira, Catarina Patoilo; Fernandes, Cláudia Oliveira; Ahern, Jack; Honrado, João P.; Farinha-Marques, Paulo

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145121

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“…For that, we resorted to a previous work that assessed level of urban ecological novelty throughout 85 urban green spaces in Porto ( Fig. 1 ), belonging to three different urban green spaces categories: Parks and Gardens, Urban Woodlands, and Vacant Lands [2] , [3] , [4] . We selected 19 sites (out of a total of 85 urban green spaces) where the level of urban ecological novelty was higher, based on the Urban Ecological Novelty Index (UNI).…”

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“…(see Table 1). This is exacerbated by the disciplinary focus of the research literature, which has debated important, yet siloed discussions of GI as an ecological or socio-economic approach to planning in some instances (Koc et al, 2017;Jennings et al, 2021;Teixeira et al, 2021).…”

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Examining the Role of Green Infrastructure as an Advocate for Regeneration

Mell

2022

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The alignment of Green Infrastructure (GI) planning principles with urban regeneration mandates can have a significant impact on the long-term socio-economic and ecological functionality of an area. As a mechanism to address landscape dereliction GI has been promoted as offering a suite of options to revitalize denuded spaces. This can take many forms including tree planting, waterfront redevelopment, the regeneration of former industrial sites, and a rethinking of spaces to make them more ecologically diverse. However, the successes seen in GI-led regeneration need to be considered in terms of the geographical, political, and socio-economic context. The following provides a review of regeneration projects that have integrated GI into development principles, examining whether these have led to positive change. Through a reflection on the scale, focus and location of these projects we discuss the factors that have shaped investment before identifying key factors that influence the inclusion of GI in regeneration works. The paper concludes that we have a growing catalogue of projects that can be used as a “green print” to align GI with regeneration to successfully delivery landscape rehabilitation and socio-economic revitalization.

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“…Controversy arises mostly related to the general NE concept as it emerged first in the literature and the dissemination of these types of ecosystems in non-urban areas are considered more problematic to conservation and restoration efforts [14][15][16][17]. In urban areas, NUE are increasingly being assumed as already largely widespread [7,8,20] and occurring in different degrees of urban ecological novelty throughout urban green spaces [21,22]. Although NUE still needs clarification and further research, the concept appears to be gaining acceptance and increasing relevance among researchers and practitioners compared to the NE concept.…”

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“…Although these criticisms have been pointed out to the concept, in general, the same necessarily applies to the concept in the urban context. In that sense, recent studies have started to address these criticisms, namely seeking a common language [18,30], reviewing the concept in both non-urban and urban contexts [9], quantifying levels of ecological novelty in cities [21,22], and assessing the role of ecological novelty in the conservation of urban biodiversity [31,32].…”

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“…Design is a powerful tool to imprint and synthesize cultural values, tradition, memory, and beauty in a landscape to make its ecological function and value visually recognizable to users [55,56,65]. Through design, the positive aspects, ecological processes, and functions of NUE can be enhanced, and its negative aspects can be mitigated or eliminated (Box 1) [21,48,54].…”

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Novel Urban Ecosystems: Opportunities from and to Landscape Architecture

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Fernandes

Ahern

2021

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Novel assemblages of biotic, abiotic, and social components resulting from human-induced actions (e.g., climate change, land-use change, species movement) have been labeled as “Novel Ecosystems”, or “Novel Urban Ecosystems” when emerging in urban contexts. This concept has been shifting perspectives among some scientists and making them question traditional values about human-nature interactions in a rapidly changing era dominated by anthropogenic actions (Anthropocene). Controversial dimensions surrounding the Novel Ecosystems and Novel Urban Ecosystems terms may be preventing the evolution and further research of these concepts. The environmental problems that our society will soon face support a search for innovative solutions and transdisciplinary efforts. For that reason, this discussion should not cease, rather should expand to other fields of knowledge that can contribute with pertinent insights and collaborations. This way, this short communication aims to reflect on the opportunities from Landscape Architecture to the discussion, research, and application of the novel ecosystems concepts in the real world, particularly in the urban landscape, and also reflect on the opportunities of this debate to the Landscape Architecture field. Ultimately, Landscape Architecture can contribute with innovative and creative perspectives, acceding valuable and advanced tools, facilitating dialogues between fields of knowledge, and bridging gaps between science, people, and nature.

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Urban ecological novelty assessment: Implications for urban green infrastructure planning and management

Cited by 29 publications

References 36 publications

Plant traits database for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Northwest Portugal

Plant traits database for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Northwest Portugal

Examining the Role of Green Infrastructure as an Advocate for Regeneration

Novel Urban Ecosystems: Opportunities from and to Landscape Architecture

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