Urban environmental quality and wellbeing in the context of incomplete urbanisation in Brazil: Integrating directly experienced ecosystem services into planning

Juntti, Meri; Costa, Heloísa Soares de Moura; Nascimento, Nilo

doi:10.1016/j.progress.2019.04.003

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“…However, as subjective well‐being is reflected through cultural understandings and material interactions, affective sensibilities can be both welcoming and hostile (Waitt & Knobel, 2018). Less pleasant attachments are noted in work exploring greenspaces and crime or oppression (Fleming et al, 2016; Juntti et al, 2019), anger and contestation over tree removal (Rotherham & Flinders, 2019), and trees memorialising or becoming subject to conflicts and loss (Cloke & Pawson, 2008; Heath‐Kelly, 2018; Phillips, Atchison, & Straughan, 2023).…”

Section: Understanding Concern For Urban Treesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotional geographies of an urban forest: Insights from an email‐a‐tree initiative

Atchison,

Brennan‐Horley,

Phillips

et al. 2023

Geographical Research

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International and national policies are being used to prioritise increases in urban forest coverage and diversity, support equitable access to urban greenspaces, and advance sound environmental governance outcomes. Yet, the relationship between people’s feelings about urban trees and public policy remains under‐examined. Drawing on a unique dataset from an email‐a‐tree initiative, the objectives of this study were to identify how concern and connection for urban trees is expressed and determine how insights from the initiative might inform urban forest governance. We examined emails sent to trees using a mixed‐methods approach that included qualitative coding, VADER sentiment analysis, and statistical and spatial analyses. We identified and considered three themes based on emails sent by members of the public and municipal tree inventory data. Those themes were location, age and loss, and type. In accord with other studies, overall sentiment for urban trees was positive and underscored people’s strong connections with trees, often based on routine and repeated engagements. However, people noticed and were concerned about a limited range of trees and tree types in urban settings. Based in Melbourne, Australia, our case study shows how examining feelings for trees helps residents and researchers understand urban tree relationships and gauge how those designing public engagement programs might learn from such an initiative to create meaningful opportunities for active participation in governance.

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Section: Understanding Concern For Urban Treesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotional geographies of an urban forest: Insights from an email‐a‐tree initiative

Atchison,

Brennan‐Horley,

Phillips

et al. 2023

Geographical Research

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“…The ecosystem services that were evaluated were pollination, biological diversity, the provision of habitat for animals, cultural values, recreation, environmental education, and avitourism [30,31]. Only three studies assessed disservices, which included crops pest, pollen allergies, infrastructure damage, fear of dark areas, vector diseases, and garbage dumps [32][33][34].…”

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Urban Ecosystem Services in South America: A Systematic Review

Muñoz-Pacheco

Villaseñor

2022

Sustainability

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Nature within cities provides benefits for people known as urban ecosystem services. An assessment of urban ecosystem services is growing in South America, a biodiverse and highly urbanized region. To synthesize this growing body of knowledge in South America, we performed a systematic review identifying patterns in the literature and knowledge gaps. Our review shows that Brazil, Chile, and Colombia contribute the greatest number of studies. More than 80% of the studies were published in the last five years, revealing this as an emerging research topic in the region. More than half of the studies had an environmental perspective and focused on services provided by green spaces. Nearly all studies involved regulating services, followed by cultural services. We found clear knowledge gaps, including a paucity of assessments on supporting and provisioning services, as well as the lack of studies in several countries, evaluations concerning land cover other than parks, and large-scale assessments. Comparing ecosystem services in different planning scenarios is urgently needed to make informed decisions, aid nature conservation, and provide ecosystem services for all urban dwellers. This knowledge will contribute to achieving sustainable cities and equitable access to ecosystem services in South America.

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“…It is also necessary to consider that urban green spaces that lack accompanying urban infrastructure can become areas that may present risk to people in Brazil. In this context of green spaces in infrastructure-poor areas, Juntti et al (2021) describe that people's ability to interact with green spaces is conditioned by insecurity in access and the right to housing, risk of crime, poor provision of urban services, and environmental degradation. Thus, urban inequality related to green spaces can be due to both unequal distribution (presence) of urban green spaces, as well as differentiated investments and care of those spaces by local governments.…”

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Urban Green Spaces in Brazil: challenges and opportunities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Silva

Lima²,

Quinn³

et al. 2023

seb

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, urban green spaces were considered less prone to contagion, and thus people adopted them as alternative sites for improving mental health. The One Health concept advocated by health organizations worldwide supports the idea that the well-being of urban residents is strongly linked with physical activity in green areas. As the world grapples with the physical and mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes clearer that access to urban green spaces is a human rights issue. This study compared previously-mapped urban green spaces in five metropolitan regions in Brazil with the results of an extensive survey of municipal managers concerning possible increase in demand of population for green spaces. Urban green spaces of over 625 m2 were mapped in 117 municipalities, the total area of 4170 km2 representing 37.4% of the urban spaces analyzed in the five metropolitan regions. Out of these 117 municipalities, 49 had data available concerning demands of green spaces in the pandemic context. Overall, 20 municipalities (representing all five metropolitan regions) stated that there was an increase in visitation in urban green spaces, and 13 more indirectly suggested possible demands. When sustainability transitions are understood as geographical processes that happen in concrete places, urban green spaces then represent real locations where sustainable transitions can begin. The unequal distribution of these spaces also brings into consideration a social justice perspective, as well as aspects of public health that involve climate change resilience and epidemiological risk (SDG 11).

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Urban environmental quality and wellbeing in the context of incomplete urbanisation in Brazil: Integrating directly experienced ecosystem services into planning

Cited by 25 publications

References 26 publications

Emotional geographies of an urban forest: Insights from an email‐a‐tree initiative

Emotional geographies of an urban forest: Insights from an email‐a‐tree initiative

Urban Ecosystem Services in South America: A Systematic Review

Urban Green Spaces in Brazil: challenges and opportunities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

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