Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures

Shahryar Sarabi; Niki Frantzeskaki; Johanna Waldenberger; Oscar Alvarado; Dorrine Raaimakers; Hens Runhaar; Charlotte Stijnen; Helen Toxopeus; Ema Vrînceanu

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127999

Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures

Shahryar Sarabi (Corresponding author), Niki Frantzeskaki, Johanna Waldenberger, Oscar Alvarado, Dorrine Raaimakers, Hens Runhaar, Charlotte Stijnen, Helen Toxopeus, Ema Vrînceanu

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Renaturing urban environments is a transformative pathway for urban sustainability that can be leveraged for collaborative research and planning to reverse long trends of ecosystem degradation. People-nature connections need to be reinforced to enable the successful uptake and upscale of urban renaturing practices. Improving people's understanding, perception, and emotions towards nature is therefore key. In this paper, we discuss how human knowledge and values of nature can be enabled through urban renaturing. Besides, we discuss the required transitions in urban planning processes to support urban renaturing practices.

Original language	English
Article number	127999
Number of pages	5
Journal	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
Volume	86
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127999
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Authors thank the Pathways to Sustainability Strategic Program of Utrecht University for the support provided to organize and hold the debates as part of the Transforming Cities Community. We also thank Geertje Speelman for her continuous support of the Transforming Cities Community and Associate Professor Joost Vervoort as Transforming Cities community connectors. We also thank all Utrecht University colleagues who contributed to the debate. We want to thank EWUU alliance (https://ewuu.nl/) for funding the first author (S.S). This paper also builds from knowledge and cases researched by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research project NATURVATION (agreement no. 730243).

Funding

Authors thank the Pathways to Sustainability Strategic Program of Utrecht University for the support provided to organize and hold the debates as part of the Transforming Cities Community. We also thank Geertje Speelman for her continuous support of the Transforming Cities Community and Associate Professor Joost Vervoort as Transforming Cities community connectors. We also thank all Utrecht University colleagues who contributed to the debate. We want to thank EWUU alliance (https://ewuu.nl/) for funding the first author (S.S). This paper also builds from knowledge and cases researched by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research project NATURVATION (agreement no. 730243). Authors thank the Pathways to Sustainability Strategic Program of Utrecht University for the support provided to organize and hold the debates as part of the Transforming Cities Community. We also thank Geertje Speelman for her continuous support of the Transforming Cities Community and Associate Professor Joost Vervoort as Transforming Cities community connectors. We also thank all Utrecht University colleagues who contributed to the debate. We want to thank EWUU alliance (https://ewuu.nl/) for funding the first author (S.S). This paper also builds from knowledge and cases researched by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research project NATURVATION (agreement no. 730243 ).

Keywords

People-nature connections
Renaturing
Traditional knowledge
Urban nature

Access to Document

10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127999Licence: CC BY

Cite this

@article{67eb2e4ee1bf4c4aa620c27a0c36aabc,

title = "Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures",

abstract = "Renaturing urban environments is a transformative pathway for urban sustainability that can be leveraged for collaborative research and planning to reverse long trends of ecosystem degradation. People-nature connections need to be reinforced to enable the successful uptake and upscale of urban renaturing practices. Improving people's understanding, perception, and emotions towards nature is therefore key. In this paper, we discuss how human knowledge and values of nature can be enabled through urban renaturing. Besides, we discuss the required transitions in urban planning processes to support urban renaturing practices.",

keywords = "People-nature connections, Renaturing, Traditional knowledge, Urban nature",

author = "Shahryar Sarabi and Niki Frantzeskaki and Johanna Waldenberger and Oscar Alvarado and Dorrine Raaimakers and Hens Runhaar and Charlotte Stijnen and Helen Toxopeus and Ema Vr{\^i}nceanu",

note = "Funding Information: Authors thank the Pathways to Sustainability Strategic Program of Utrecht University for the support provided to organize and hold the debates as part of the Transforming Cities Community. We also thank Geertje Speelman for her continuous support of the Transforming Cities Community and Associate Professor Joost Vervoort as Transforming Cities community connectors. We also thank all Utrecht University colleagues who contributed to the debate. We want to thank EWUU alliance (https://ewuu.nl/) for funding the first author (S.S). This paper also builds from knowledge and cases researched by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research project NATURVATION (agreement no. 730243). ",

year = "2023",

month = aug,

doi = "10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127999",

language = "English",

volume = "86",

journal = "Urban Forestry & Urban Greening",

issn = "1618-8667",

publisher = "Elsevier",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Renaturing cities

T2 - from utopias to contested realities and futures

AU - Sarabi, Shahryar

AU - Frantzeskaki, Niki

AU - Waldenberger, Johanna

AU - Alvarado, Oscar

AU - Raaimakers, Dorrine

AU - Runhaar, Hens

AU - Stijnen, Charlotte

AU - Toxopeus, Helen

AU - Vrînceanu, Ema

N1 - Funding Information: Authors thank the Pathways to Sustainability Strategic Program of Utrecht University for the support provided to organize and hold the debates as part of the Transforming Cities Community. We also thank Geertje Speelman for her continuous support of the Transforming Cities Community and Associate Professor Joost Vervoort as Transforming Cities community connectors. We also thank all Utrecht University colleagues who contributed to the debate. We want to thank EWUU alliance (https://ewuu.nl/) for funding the first author (S.S). This paper also builds from knowledge and cases researched by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research project NATURVATION (agreement no. 730243).

PY - 2023/8

Y1 - 2023/8

N2 - Renaturing urban environments is a transformative pathway for urban sustainability that can be leveraged for collaborative research and planning to reverse long trends of ecosystem degradation. People-nature connections need to be reinforced to enable the successful uptake and upscale of urban renaturing practices. Improving people's understanding, perception, and emotions towards nature is therefore key. In this paper, we discuss how human knowledge and values of nature can be enabled through urban renaturing. Besides, we discuss the required transitions in urban planning processes to support urban renaturing practices.

AB - Renaturing urban environments is a transformative pathway for urban sustainability that can be leveraged for collaborative research and planning to reverse long trends of ecosystem degradation. People-nature connections need to be reinforced to enable the successful uptake and upscale of urban renaturing practices. Improving people's understanding, perception, and emotions towards nature is therefore key. In this paper, we discuss how human knowledge and values of nature can be enabled through urban renaturing. Besides, we discuss the required transitions in urban planning processes to support urban renaturing practices.

KW - People-nature connections

KW - Renaturing

KW - Traditional knowledge

KW - Urban nature

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85162852171&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127999

DO - 10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127999

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85162852171

SN - 1618-8667

VL - 86

JO - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

JF - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

M1 - 127999

ER -

Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Funding

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this