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Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces: Cities and Nature

Editat de Nicola Dempsey, Julian Dobson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2021
This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into ‘success’ and/or ‘failure’. The provision, care and use of natural landscapes in urban settings (e.g. parks, woodland, nature reserves, riverbanks) are under-researched in academia and under-resourced in practice. Our growing knowledge of the benefits of natural urban spaces for wellbeing contrasts with asset management approaches in practice that view public green spaces as liabilities. Why is there a mismatch between what we know about urban green space and what we do in practice? What makes some UGS more ‘successful’ than others? And who decides on this measure of ‘success’ and how is this constituted? This book sets out to answer these and related questions by exploring a range of approaches to designing, planning and managing different natural landscapes in urban settings.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030444822
ISBN-10: 3030444821
Pagini: 201
Ilustrații: XV, 201 p. 35 illus., 29 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Cities and Nature

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1. Why practice doesn’t make perfect: the challenges of translating greenspace knowledge into action.- Chapter 2. Contesting longstanding conceptualisations of urban green space.- Chapter 3. What is urban nature and how do we perceive it?.- Chapter 4. Naturally feeling good? Exploring our complex relationships with urban nature.- Chapter 5. Can we really value nature? Contesting the costs and benefits of urban green space.- Chapter 6. Mind the gap: does what we know about greenspace and wellbeing change what we do?.- Chapter 7. The challenges of changing governance: curating new civic identities for health and wellbeing.- Chapter 8. What about the ‘not-so-good’ practice? Examining urban green space interventions post-implementation.- Chapter 9. Realigning knowing and doing: an agenda for reflection and action.

Notă biografică

Dr Nicola Dempsey is Senior Lecturer based in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on place-keeping which conceptualizes the design, planning and management of places as an ongoing and dynamic process. Dr. Dempsey’s recent research on the Improving Wellbeing through Urban Nature (IWUN) project identified green space interventions which boost the health and wellbeing of urban residents. Her research is underpinned by the need for long-term ‘post-occupancy evaluation’ of everyday urban landscapes. Her work has been recently published in the books: Marketization in Local Government, Staging Urban Landscapes and Public Space Design and Social Cohesion as well as in journals including Journal of Environmental Management, Landscape Research, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening and the International Journal of Public Sector Management.   Dr Julian Dobson is director of the research consultancy Urban Pollinators, based inSheffield, UK. He was also a member of the IWUN team at the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield. He was previously founding editor of the community regeneration journal New Start.
His research interests focus on the development and care of equitable and environmentally sustainable places, and he is currently involved in a range of projects on urban green spaces and their management and governance.
Dr Dobson is author of How to Save our Town Centres (Policy Press) and co-editor of Urban Crisis, Urban Hope (Anthem, in press). Recent research articles have appeared in journals including Sustainability, Voluntary Sector Review, and Environmental Science and Policy.

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This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into ‘success’ and/or ‘failure’. The provision, care and use of natural landscapes in urban settings (e.g. parks, woodland, nature reserves, riverbanks) are under-researched in academia and under-resourced in practice. Our growing knowledge of the benefits of natural urban spaces for wellbeing contrasts with asset management approaches in practice that view public green spaces as liabilities. Why is there a mismatch between what we know about urban green space and what we do in practice? What makes some UGS more ‘successful’ than others? And who decides on this measure of ‘success’ and how is this constituted? This book sets out to answer these and related questions by exploring a range of approaches to designing, planning and managing different natural landscapes in urban settings.

Caracteristici

Explores empirical as well as theoretical accounts of healthy green space Underlines the importance of the local context with illustrative examples from around the world Provides examples of poor practice as well as good practice to provide enhanced understanding