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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127304
Titel (primär) COVID-19 pandemic observations as a trigger to reflect on urban forestry in European cities under climate change: Introducing nature-society-based solutions
Autor Haase, D.
Quelle Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
Department CLE
Band/Volume 64
Seite von art. 127304
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords Urban forests; Pandemic; Flexible planning; Succession; Connectivity and distance
Abstract COVID-19 pandemic observations triggered a reflection by the author on urban forests in European cities under climate change as nature-society-based solutions. This commentary introduces a complementary triad of approaches that are all known but might lead to a novel view of urban nature, including forests, regarding changes in pandemic diseases and/or related to urbanization and climate change: Hybridity, succession, and flexibility: First, allowing for green spaces used by humans and nature but also those that are exclusively for ecosystems to provide space for undisturbed development and thus better control pests and diseases. Second, allow for succession at urban open spaces to let nature experiment on solutions for a drier and hotter climate that urban society can implement in urban forestry. And third, allow planning to set targets in efficiency assessment and monitoring that are matching time periods which natural ecosystems need to adapt to climate change acknowledging nature as a real ‘partner’ in nature-society-based solutions in one-health cities.
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Haase, D. (2021):
COVID-19 pandemic observations as a trigger to reflect on urban forestry in European cities under climate change: Introducing nature-society-based solutions
Urban For. Urban Green. 64 , art. 127304 10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127304