Urban resilience at eye level: Spatial analysis of empirically defined experiential landscapes

Samuelsson, Karl; Colding, Johan; Barthel, Stephan

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.03.015

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“…Realising living environments for humans that combine energy efficiency with healthy and expansive ecosystems requires a shift in focus from a simplistic 'dense vs. green' framing [104]. Policy interventions have to be developed in conjunction with human experiences and social values [105]. The importance of nurturing shared values for nature for a sustainable future is remarked by many academic authors [7,44,106] and a few noted its particular relevance in the context of developing sustainable human habitats [94,107,108].…”

Section: Policy Recommendationsmentioning

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The regenerative compatibility: A synergy between healthy ecosystems, environmental attitudes, and restorative experiences

Giusti

Samuelsson

2020

PLoS ONE

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Urban nature is and will be the most common provider of nature interactions for humankind. The restorative benefits of nature exposure are renown and creating human habitats that simultaneously support people's wellbeing and ecological sustainability is an urgent priority. In this study, we investigate how the relationship between environmental attitudes and healthy ecosystems influences restorative experiences combining a place-based online survey with geographical data on ecosystem health in Stockholm (Sweden). Using spatial regression, we predict the 544 restorative experiences (from 325 respondents), with people's environmental attitudes, natural land covers, ecosystem health, and the statistical interactions among these variables as predictors. Our results show that restorative experiences can happen anywhere in the urban landscape, but when they occur in natural environments, the combined levels of biodiversity and ecological connectivity are better predicting factor than the mere presence of nature. That is, healthy ecosystems seem to be more important than just any nature for restorative experiences. Moreover, the statistical interaction between one's environmental attitudes and natural environments predict almost all restorative experiences better than when these variables are independent predictors. This suggests that there is synergistic compatibility between environmental attitudes and healthy ecosystems that triggers restorative processes. We call this synergy regenerative compatibility. Regenerative compatibility is an unexploited potential that emerges when people's attitudes and ecosystems are aligned in sustainability. We consider regenerative compatibility a valuable leverage point to transform towards ecologically sustainable and healthy urban systems. To this end, we encourage multifaceted policy interventions that regenerate human-nature relationships holistically rather than implement atomistic solutions.

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Section: Policy Recommendationsmentioning

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The regenerative compatibility: A synergy between healthy ecosystems, environmental attitudes, and restorative experiences

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Samuelsson

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…Urban sustainability assessment can be used as a clarifying mechanism [66][67][68][69][70][71][72] for both project planning and appraisal. Urban indicator systems can assess the sustainability operation of urban built environment.…”

Section: Real-time Urban Sustainability Assessment Tools In Environmementioning

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Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Pera

2020

Sustainability

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In this systematic review, I cumulate previous research findings indicating that sustainable urbanism and networked public governance can be instrumental in carrying out extensive sustainability and resilience objectives through steering urban transformations in the direction of sustainability and resilience. Urban analytics data infrastructure, multicriteria sustainability evaluation, and sustainable performance assessment display the intricate network dynamics operational within cities, impacting urban resilience decision-making processes and leading to equitable and sustainable urban development. Throughout July 2020, I conducted a quantitative literature review of the Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases, search terms including “sustainable urban planning,” “urban sustainability assessment,” “sustainable urban governance/urban sustainability governance,” “sustainable urban development,” “sustainable/sustainability behavior,” and “environmental performance.” As I focused on research published exclusively in the past two years, only 301 various types of articles met the eligibility criteria. By removing those whose results were inconclusive, unconfirmed by replication, or too general, and because of space constraints, I selected 153, mainly empirical, sources. Future research should investigate whether the assessment of environmental sustainability performance of heterogeneous urban configurations by shared sustainability policymaking through spatial green infrastructure planning and regulations articulate sustainable urban design and governance for the development of innovative performance.

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“…The SC-framework is often launched as a participatory planning tool, due to its dual role of participatory sensing, in which citizen's big data and advice are used in the design of a city [8,37,38]. Big data analytics have a huge potential to enhance smart city services; however, the combination of the IoT and Big Data is still an immature, unexplored research avenue, with new challenges for achieving the goal of the smart city [39].…”

Section: Participatory Sensing and Public Choice Constraintsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, recent advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Web 2.0 technologies, and augmented reality technology have the potential to improve public participation [40,41]. This includes Public Participation GIS (PPGIS), with the potential to promote community participation in planning, design and management [37,38,42]. The involvement of citizens and other stakeholders in the planning process can be seen as an extension of the democratic process and may ensure that plans are more widely accepted by city residents [43].…”

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Wicked Problems of Smart Cities

2019

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It is often uncritically assumed that, when digital technologies are integrated into the operation of city functions, they inevitably contribute to sustainable urban development. Such a notion rests largely on the belief that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions pave the way for more democratic forms of planning, and that ‘smart’ technological devices result in a range of environmental benefits, e.g., energy efficiency and the mitigation of global warming. Drawing on the scientific literature that deals with ‘smart cities’, we here elaborate on how both propositions fail to consider drawbacks that could be characterized as ‘wicked’, i.e., problems that lack simplistic solutions and straightforward planning responses, and which often come about as ‘management surprises’, as a byproduct of achieving sustainability. We here deal with problems related to public choice constraints, ‘non-choice default technologies’ and the costs of automation for human learning and resilience. To avoid undemocratic forms of planning and too strong a dependence on non-choice default technologies, e.g., smart phones, we recommend that planners and policy makers safeguard redundancy in public-choice options by maintaining a wide range of alternative choices, including analog ones. Resilience thinking could help planners deal more effectively with the ‘wickedness’ of an increasingly hyper-connected society.

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Urban resilience at eye level: Spatial analysis of empirically defined experiential landscapes

Cited by 45 publications

References 37 publications

The regenerative compatibility: A synergy between healthy ecosystems, environmental attitudes, and restorative experiences

The regenerative compatibility: A synergy between healthy ecosystems, environmental attitudes, and restorative experiences

Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Wicked Problems of Smart Cities

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