Director, Research Center & Centre for Climate Change, and Professor of Ecology, Azim Premji University. Stanford List of 2% most influential scientists. Non-fiction and fiction author - Bangalore Detectives Club series.
Exciting new paper alert! Nature based solutions in cities of the global South—The 'where, who and how' of implementation. We examine ~1700 cases of Urban NBS implementation from two large databases - OPPLA and Urban Natural Atlas. Only 120 cases document completed Urban NBS initiatives from the Global South – showing just how large the information and implementation gap is. Of these 120 cases, the majority (92) are in Asia, with just 17 in Africa and 11 in Central/South America. Second: the primary focus is on biodiversity conservation, and then social recreation. But there are many other important aspects of Urban NBS, especially in the global South, which are ignored (water, climate resilience, spiritual, sacred etc). Third: implementation in the global South is largely led by Government/State and NGOs. Citizen participation is tokenistic, involving citizens in aspects like planting, but rarely in actual planning. We can't call it an information gap (on urban ecology in the global South) - it's a vast chasm of ignorance :-( Full text available at the link below https://lnkd.in/gpXqnMES with Arvind Lakshmisha and Abdul Fathah Nazar at Azim Premji University
Hello Harini, very interesting. I don't seem to see the list of the NbS identified. I want to see whether our NbS in Seychelles was picked up.Many thanks
Thanks for sharing this Harini Nagendra. I've been thinking about the apparent absence of women's participation in urban forestry and trying to reconcile it with so much that's been written about women in rural forestry.. definitely an area that needs more listening and telling.
This is very lovely, im so eager to learn a thing or two. Currently im looking to take a step further in my academics in the areas of Environmental conservation, Human-Wildlife interface and sustainable tourism and biodiversity. Your work could give me great insight. Great job!!!
Very informative
Tom Wild
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#UrbanNatureConnectsUs
neeraj kr.
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Congrats mam🎉
Scientifically articulated, clear and concise research paper: many congratulations!
Sustainability & Climate Change | PhD Candidate at Western Sydney University
1wReally interesting! Do you think there's something about different places and communities not using 'nature based solutions' language that might contribute to this number? I'm wondering whether the ethic of 'nature-based' is woven throughout hundreds and thousands of practices but termed (and thought about) differently.