From wastelands to waiting lands

Beveridge, Ross; Kip, Markus; Oevermann, Heike

doi:10.1080/13604813.2022.2040200

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“…Specifically, in forest IGS, habitat continuity is essential for promoting the presence of rare and ancient forest plant species, which often have very low seed dispersal capabilities [61]. IGS should be therefore perceived as areas designated for long-term ecological restoration [8,9,102].…”

Section: Factors Shaping Informal Green Spacesmentioning

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Conservation Management Practices for Biodiversity Preservation in Urban Informal Green Spaces: Lessons from Central European City

Archiciński,

Przybysz,

Sikorska

et al. 2024

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Urban informal green spaces (IGS) represent valuable reservoirs of biodiversity within urban areas and are increasingly recognized as integral components of green infrastructure. They are perceived as temporary ecosystems, and the management of their vegetation is relatively understudied. The development time of spontaneous vegetation on transformed lands is considered to be in the range of decades, which makes it even more necessary to provide managers with better guidelines for such a long period. Two suggested management approaches for these areas involve: (1) retaining vegetation at various stages of succession (non-forest IGS) and (2) protecting advanced developmental stages (forest IGS), with options for balanced intervention or complete non-intervention. However, the differences in biodiversity between these two types in cities across Central Europe remain unknown, as well as whether the predictors of biodiversity at both local and landscape scales are consistent for non-forest and forest IGS. We examined factors such as habitat continuity, landscape structure, soil quality, and human impact to shed light on pathways for enhancing urban floristic diversity. Conducting extensive botanical surveys in existing informal green spaces (IGS) in Warsaw, we derived various parameters, including the total number of species, Shannon-Wiener biodiversity index, hemeroby, urbanity, share of species from distinct ecological groups, and the number of rare and ancient forest plant species. Tracing habitat continuity from the early 20th century using digitized aerial imagery provided a unique long-term perspective on IGS development. We revealed that no management is pivotal for the conservation of select rare and ancient forest species. On the other hand, partial abandonment with occasional maintenance may enrich species diversity across different successional phases. We uncovered the significant influence of landscape structure and human activity on vegetation species composition within IGS. Notably, IGS proximate to extensive forest landscapes displayed a marked abundance of forest species, alongside a greater prevalence of rare species. However, the presence of other vegetation types in the vicinity did not yield similar effects. Our findings indicate that IGS, when left untouched for decades near forested areas, are valuable for urban biodiversity. As cities across the globe seek sustainable paths, this research underscores the importance of properly understanding and integrating IGS into urban ecological planning.

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confidence: 99%

Conservation Management Practices for Biodiversity Preservation in Urban Informal Green Spaces: Lessons from Central European City

Archiciński,

Przybysz,

Sikorska

et al. 2024

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“…‘Governmentality can operate as effectively through aesthetic norms as it does through scientific rational and statistical processes of knowledge assembly’ (Ghertner, 2010: 186). Wasteland governmentality thus acts through projecting waste as an aesthetic and moral category on landscapes for successive cycles of capitalist extraction involving the invention and political construction of newer forms of waste, value, and property regimes turning them into ‘waiting lands’ (Beveridge et al, 2022). In the case of Sattur, for instance, Baka (2013: 420) finds that the introduction of the Prosopis Juliflora tree as part of wasteland development in the 1970s served as the condition for classifying the landscape again as a wasteland in the 2000s.…”

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Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region

Bathla

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Wasteland governmentality has long shaped colonial and postcolonial landscape governance across the planet. While historically wasteland classification was deployed for agrarian land settlement and silviculture, with extended urbanisation it is increasingly used to consolidate landscapes of extended urban nature. These landscapes are in turn subjected to state-led land enclosures for urban and infrastructure development and for greenwashing. This paper investigates the political construction of one such landscape of extended urban nature, the Aravalli region, a geological feature which runs parallel to the extended corridor urbanisation in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). Particularly, I examine how in the name of regulating mining, urban development, and pollution in the Delhi NCR, the revenue wastes including sacred groves, hills, and other village commons falling in the Aravallis have been consolidated as a state space. I examine how the patchwork of communities assembled in the extended urban fabric of the region deploys the sacred to counter land enclosure and the emptying out of meaning. I discuss three such modalities of the sacred in the region, namely, its use by agrarian villages to assert land rights over sacred forests, the misuse of the sacred by temple committees to produce faux nature, and its use by emergent urban environmental movements in the region to frame an anti-wasteland politics. Focusing my attention on the state, I discuss the need for a nuanced understanding of emergent urban environmentalism in the region as restorative commoning beyond the binary framings of bourgeois versus the poor.

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“…Como señalan Beveridge et al (2022), en la literatura académica los baldíos urbanos aparecen frecuentemente atrapados entre dos posturas, la estigmatización y la romantización. (Gaja i Díaz, 2015a) apunta que, desde la crisis financiera mundial de 2008, los espacios urbanos sin uso, en sus diversas formas, se han hecho más visibles convirtiéndose en un tema de creciente preocupación para la geografía urbana como revela O'Callaghan (2023) en una revisión bibliográfica sobre los vacíos urbanos.…”

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Espacios urbanos fosilizados en Oviedo

Obeso Muñiz

2023

TERRA

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En el contexto de los procesos urbanos de las ciudades medias españolas tras la crisis de 2008 esta investigación se aproxima a las consecuencias que la paralización del proceso urbanizador tiene en el paisaje urbano. Para ello se toma como caso de estudio la ciudad de Oviedo en la que convergen varios procesos que pueden resultar de interés para el resto de las ciudades y para futuras investigaciones de síntesis sobre los procesos urbanos contemporáneos. Por un lado, se observa la existencia de enclaves dentro del tejido urbano que tras la pérdida de su función no han encontrado alternativas y se ven afectadas por el abandono. Por otro, las consecuencias de un planeamiento urbanístico estrechamente vinculado a los ciclos alcistas de la economía han producido que la expansión prevista mediante la clasificación de ámbitos de suelo urbanizable no haya sido efectiva. De tal modo, tanto en la ciudad consolidada como en su periferia se observen situaciones de parálisis, falta de expectativas o proyectos inconclusos que en alguno de los casos superan la década. Así pues, estos espacios urbanos fosilizados parecen enclaves ajenos a su entorno y mientras la futura regeneración llega se ven expuestos a un intenso proceso de degradación.

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From wastelands to waiting lands

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Conservation Management Practices for Biodiversity Preservation in Urban Informal Green Spaces: Lessons from Central European City

Conservation Management Practices for Biodiversity Preservation in Urban Informal Green Spaces: Lessons from Central European City

Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region

Espacios urbanos fosilizados en Oviedo

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