Environmental sustainability in cities by biophilic city approach: a case study of Tehran

Ziari, Keramatollah; Ahmad, Pourahmad; Mehrabani, Bagher Fotouhi; Hosseini, ‌Ali

doi:10.1080/12265934.2018.1425153

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“…The role of the governmental institutions, at all levels (community, municipal, provincial, regional, national and supra-national), is fundamental in promoting participation in recycling [94], the development of moral responsibility, the spread of environmental values and knowledge, and the dissemination of an ecological worldview [222]. In fact, a wide spectrum of activities can be organized by official bodies, like encouraging biodiversity [223], sorting behaviour [224], promoting pro-environmental campaigns [188] and creating adequate pro-environmental stimuli [189].…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Concepts and Factors Related to Pro-Environmental Consumer Behaviour in Relation to Waste Management Through an Interdisciplinary Approach

2020

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Although there has been a steady increase in the number of studies on consumer behaviour in relation to sustainable development, there is limited focus on the product disposal phase. This systematic literature review intends to: (1) clarify how concepts related to pro-environmental consumer behaviour are understood and analysed in the academic literature on waste management; (2) discover any interplay between pro-environmental consumer behaviour and generic consumer behaviour, and the conditions and factors that favour it. A typical systematic literature review methodology was applied to the papers available on Web of Science, Science Direct and EBSCO (Elton Bryson Stephens Company) host between 1975 and 2019, leading to the selection of 699 final papers. The findings reveal that: (1) Although scholars tend to create a variety of pro-environmental consumer behaviour models depending on their specific field of inquiry, all approaches can be traced back to a limited number of reference theories; (2) The overall level of interplay between pro-environmental consumer behaviour and generic consumer behaviour is limited, nevertheless a favourable context or a supportive institutional-legal framework can significantly influence it; (3) A plethora of conditions and factors favour this type of interplay, involving social psychology, laws, economics, institutions and more; (4) Several critical issues appear in the analysed papers, especially some scholars’ assumptions to be able to identify all key factors. It follows the need for a more interdisciplinary approach, a deeper analysis of the effectiveness of the intervention measures at the governmental and institutional level, and a clear classification of factors and conditions (as proposed by this review).

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A Systematic Literature Review of Concepts and Factors Related to Pro-Environmental Consumer Behaviour in Relation to Waste Management Through an Interdisciplinary Approach

2020

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“…The percentage of the population living near green spaces and ecological spaces is an important factor in achieving biophilic planning. The percentage of the area covered by trees or other types of vegetation to the total area of the city [37]. It is necessary to avoid high-rise buildings in neighborhoods that contain natural elements such as rivers.…”

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Identifying and Measuring Biophilic Planning Indicators in Riverside Neighborhoods

Alaskary

Alrobaee

2022

Civ Eng J

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Biophilic planning is one of the important trends in achieving sustainability and nature conservation, especially in areas that contain natural elements. Since in the case of climate change and urban encroachment on natural habitats, taking care of nature and investing its components properly is a necessity, not a choice. As well as the agreement among many researchers about the social, economic and environmental benefits provided by biophilic planning, which is based mainly on the idea of connecting people with nature. This study aims to provide a guide to planners, urban designers, and decision-makers, including how to deal with residential neighborhoods that contain natural elements such as rivers by depending on a specific methodology based on previous literature and deriving effective indicators in this type of neighborhood. The results of the theoretical framework showed that there are eleven effective indicators, some of which are measured by descriptive methods and some by quantitative methods. These indicators have been applied in one of the neighborhoods of the Iraqi Kufa City overlooking the Euphrates River. The results showed that the study area lacks standards and indicators of biophilic planning. Doi: 10.28991/CEJ-2022-08-01-03 Full Text: PDF

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“…Urbanisation can also affect complex and dynamic relational placemaking processes between people and the physical (natural and built) environment (Ghavampour and Vale, 2015;Dameria et al, 2022). These diverse potential outcomes, along with expectations of continued urban growth into the future (United Nations, 2018), highlights the need to critically consider how cities can become decarbonised and sustainable (Ziari et al, 2018;Macke et al, 2019) in ways that can enable the people who live within them to have healthy and well lives.…”

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Identity, place narrative and biophilic urban development: Connecting the past, present and future for sustainable liveable cities

O’Sullivan

Shirani

Hale

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Urbanisation presents sustainability challenges for the natural environment, resources and ecological systems, whilst high levels of pollution and disconnect from the natural environment can adversely impact the health and wellbeing of urban residents. Rapid urbanisation can also curtail processes of placemaking, including place attachment and place identity, raising questions around the social sustainability and livability of cities into the future. With such concerns in mind, cities are increasingly called upon to develop in ways that are environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable. Biophilic urbanism and biophilic design offer an approach to sustainable urban development. Such approaches propose incorporation of nature and green infrastructure within the city in order to positively affect human health and wellbeing, in addition to benefiting environmental, social and economic sustainability. This paper explores findings from community focus groups exploring perceptions of a proposed biophilic urban development in Wales, UK. Our research explored how community members understood and negotiated possible impacts of the development on the social, environmental and economic landscape of the city by drawing on their own emplaced experiences. Through gaining an understanding of community place identity and narrative as well as distinctive and defining place characteristics, connections and synergies are revealed between place-based attachment and principles of biophilia. This in turn can provide a trajectory of place transformation authentic to both community and place identity and which supports the aims of biophilic design. As a consequence, it is possible for biophilic design to not only be sustained by communities, but to become an integral element of place identity and place attachment, contributing to the sustainability of place through time.

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Environmental sustainability in cities by biophilic city approach: a case study of Tehran

Cited by 13 publications

References 39 publications

A Systematic Literature Review of Concepts and Factors Related to Pro-Environmental Consumer Behaviour in Relation to Waste Management Through an Interdisciplinary Approach

A Systematic Literature Review of Concepts and Factors Related to Pro-Environmental Consumer Behaviour in Relation to Waste Management Through an Interdisciplinary Approach

Identifying and Measuring Biophilic Planning Indicators in Riverside Neighborhoods

Identity, place narrative and biophilic urban development: Connecting the past, present and future for sustainable liveable cities

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