Reclaiming Healthy Cities Through Nature-Based Planning Solutions
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- Springer Nature
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- The Empathic City, 2023, pp. 123-141
- Issue Date:
- 2023
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As society is becoming increasingly urbanized, environmental quality is degrading and natural values, values that are irreplaceable, are endangered more than ever. The results of such processes may be practically irreversible, unless preventive measures are embedded in planning and development. The recent Covid-19 pandemic further inflated the urgent need to emphasise the importance of our collective health and quality of life as part of spatial planning policies and decision-making approaches. Societies now have a better understanding of the role that nature-based solutions (NBSs) could play in creating a sustainable, resilient and just urban environment, yet we still see a disjoint between theory and practice, with limited evidence of how NBSs are successfully embedded in spatial planning approaches. This chapter departs from an overview of the notion of healthy cities, as well as the historical development and current state of our urban environment. Nature-based planning solutions for a healthier future is accordingly considered, contextualised in terms of the environmental, economic and social benefits related to such NBSs. This framed the scope to understand the respective opportunities, and the challenges, in quest towards reclaiming global healthy cities. The chapter concludes with recommendations pertaining to nature-based planning solutions that could support and reclaim healthy cities.
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