Reconnecting with nature: Developing urban spaces in the age of climate change
Reconnecting with nature: Developing urban spaces in the age of climate change
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DOI：
10.12688/emeraldopenres.12960.1
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发表时间：
2019-01
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通讯作者：
Steffen Lehmann
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作者：
Steffen Lehmann
气候变化正在发生在我们周围，并影响着我们的日常生活，这意味着我们必须以不同的方式处理我们的城市。人们也越来越意识到，为了过上幸福、富有成效和有意义的生活，需要每天与绿地和自然环境接触。这篇深思熟虑的文章讲述了城市化是如何将人类与自然隔绝的。不可持续、不可恢复的城市化模式，加上对市中心地区的忽视，导致了碎片化和城市衰落，导致生物多样性的丧失，并导致生态系统及其服务的恶化。城市重建项目使我们能够‘修复’和恢复一些这种损害，同时增强城市的韧性。将现有和增强的生态系统连接起来，并在城市内部和城市边缘重建生态系统，对于加强生态系统复原力和建设应对气候变化影响的适应能力至关重要。世界各地的城市需要寻找合适的解决方案，以增加其城市空间在面对气候变化时的弹性。本文探讨了如何通过整合基于自然的解决方案、重新绿化社区以及通过正确地将价值归于自然资本来实现这一点。以这种方式改造现有城市和社区将使生态系统能够为更健康、更宜居的城市贡献自己的服务。
Climate change is occurring around us and impacting on our daily lives, meaning that we have to deal with our cities in a different way. There is also increasing awareness of the need for daily contact with green spaces and the natural environment in order to live a happy, productive and meaningful life. This reflective essay tells the narrative of how urbanisation has been disconnecting humans from nature. Non-sustainable, non-resilient patterns of urbanisation, along with the neglect of inner-city areas, have resulted in fragmentation and urban decline, led to a loss of biodiversity, and caused the deterioration of ecosystems and their services. Urban regeneration projects allow us to ‘repair’ and restore some of this damage whilst enhancing urban resilience. Connecting existing and enhanced ecosystems, and re-establishing ecosystems both within cities and at the peri-urban fringe is vital for strengthening ecosystem resilience and building adaptive capacity for coping with the effects of climate change. Cities worldwide need to look for suitable solutions to increase the resilience of their urban spaces in the face of climate change. This essay explores how this can be achieved through the integration of nature-based solutions, the re-greening of neighbourhoods and by correctly attributing value to natural capital. Transforming existing cities and neighbourhoods in this way will enable ecosystems to contribute their services towards healthier and more liveable cities.