Comparing community garden typologies of Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City (USA) to understand potential implications for socio-ecological services

Anderson, Edmund G.; Egerer, Monika; Fouch, Nakisha; Clarke, Mysha; Davidson, Melissa

doi:10.1007/s11252-019-00855-9

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“…, Anderson et al. ) comparable to what is seen in global studies of other ecosystems (Condit , Fraser et al. , Anderson‐Teixeira et al.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…, Anderson et al. , Burdine and McCluney ) show that the interaction between broad‐scale urban gradients and fine‐scale habitat variables contribute to the overall community structure in urban ecosystem and must be considered when developing management practices intended to enhance the biodiversity of urbanized landscapes.…”

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“…, Anderson et al. , Burdine and McCluney ). In general, increased urbanization corresponds with a decrease in species richness (Aronson et al.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Local‐ and landscape‐scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hot spot

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Bahlai

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Ecological Applications

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Brown. 2020. Localand landscape-scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hot spot. Ecological Applications 30(4):Abstract. Local community structure is shaped by processes acting at local and landscape scales. The relative importance of drivers operating across different spatial scales is difficult to test without observations across regional or latitudinal gradients. Cities exhibit strong but predictable environmental gradients overlaying a mosaic of highly variable but repeated habitat types within a constrained area. Thus, cities present a unique opportunity to explore how both local and landscape factors influence local biotic communities. We used insect communities to examine the interactions among local environmental variables (such as temperature and relative humidity), local habitat characteristics (such as plant community composition), and broad-scale patterns of urbanization (including biophysical, human-built, and socioeconomic variables) on local insect abundance, species richness, and species composition in Los Angeles, a hot, dry, near-desert city. After accounting for seasonal trends, insect species richness and abundance were highest in drier and hotter sites, but the magnitude of local environmental effects varied with the degree of urbanization. In contrast, insect species composition was best predicted by broad-scale urbanization trends, with the more native communities occurring in less urbanized sites and more cosmopolitan insects occurring in highly urbanized sites. However, insect species richness and abundance were >30% higher and insect composition was similar across sites that hosted either native or drought-tolerant plants, regardless of the degree of urbanization. These results demonstrate that urban insect biodiversity is a product of interacting mechanisms working at both local and landscape scales. However, local-scale changes to urban habitats, such as cultivating plants that are adapted to the natural environment nearest the city, can positively impact urban biodiversity regardless of location.

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“…, Anderson et al. ) comparable to what is seen in global studies of other ecosystems (Condit , Fraser et al. , Anderson‐Teixeira et al.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

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confidence: 99%

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Local‐ and landscape‐scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hot spot

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Bahlai

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Ecological Applications

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“…[ 21,23,77,78,80,88,90,91,105,114,117,124,128,135,139,140,146,150,154,157,167] By examining the results, it is possible to identify the connectivity, multifunctionality, and multiscale as the principles that are the most frequently mentioned in the literature. In fact, multifunctionality is mentioned in more than half of the papers analyzed (58), and connectivity and multiscale are mentioned in 46 and 38 publications, respectively.…”

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Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review

Monteiro

Ferreira

Antunes

2020

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Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, green infrastructure, as a planning tool, contributes to social and economic benefits, leading to the achievement of sustainable, resilient, inclusive and competitive urban areas. Despite recent developments, there is still no consensus among researchers and practitioners regarding the concept of green infrastructure as well as its implementation approaches, which makes it often difficult for urban planners and other professionals in the field to develop a robust green infrastructure in some parts of the world. To address this issue, an integrative literature review was conducted to identify which green infrastructure planning principles should be acknowledged in spatial planning practices to promote sustainability and resilience. As a result of this literature review, the most common eight green infrastructure planning principles were selected—connectivity, multifunctionality, applicability, integration, diversity, multiscale, governance, and continuity. These principles intend to promote and simplify the development and use of green infrastructure by different academic and implementation organizations and provide a more defined model for sustainable landscape management in order to help practitioners and decision makers during the conceptualization and planning of green infrastructure.

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“…Community gardens, a type of urban green space managed by residents of a neighbourhood, have gained recognition for their positive impacts on public health and neighbourhood cohesion [1,2,3,4]. Previous research has examined the influence of community gardens on local ecology and sustainability [5,6,7,8], residents’ physical and mental health [9,10,11], as well as community empowerment and environmental justice [12,13,14,15,16]. Organisations as diverse as government departments, universities, and NGOs have promoted, though often from different perspectives, the development and construction of community gardens [17,18].…”

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Community-Engaged Research for the Promotion of Healthy Urban Environments: A Case Study of Community Garden Initiative in Shanghai, China

Kou

Zhang

Liu

2019

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The importance of community gardens in a healthy urban environment has been extensively documented, while the garden building involving communities has not been much explored in fast-developing cities. This study examines community engagement in garden building activities in a rapid urbanization context, aiming to explore the application of community-engaged research methods for the promotion of neighbourhood environments. The Community Garden Initiative consisting of an array of progressive actions is formulated by the research team, featuring a process of increasing involvement of community members and decreasing intensity of external interventions. These activities have been launched based on community-university partnerships in Shanghai since 2014, synchronising with a transformation of urban regeneration paradigm in China where people-oriented approaches are more emphasized. Five actions covering 70 community gardens are analysed through surveys on participants’ attitudes and perceptions towards the activities. The results of the study presented people’s rapid acceptance of participation in public affairs, reflected possible measures to promote public participation, and confirmed the positive impacts of the garden building on the neighbourhood environmental health as well as on the community-building. Taking into account that residents generally lack the consciousness and capacities required to implement actions at the initial stage of community engagement, we proposed in the conclusion to start with external interventions and capacity buildings carried out by professionals as a supplement to the ‘community-driven’ principle of CBPR methods.

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Comparing community garden typologies of Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City (USA) to understand potential implications for socio-ecological services

Cited by 23 publications

References 68 publications

Local‐ and landscape‐scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hot spot

Local‐ and landscape‐scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hot spot

Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review

Community-Engaged Research for the Promotion of Healthy Urban Environments: A Case Study of Community Garden Initiative in Shanghai, China

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