Fischer, Leonie K. and Honold, Jasmin and Cvejic, Rozalija and Delshammar, Tim and Hilbert, Sven and Lafortezza, Raffaele and Nastran, Mojca and Nielsen, Anders Busse and Pintar, Marina and van der Jagt, Alexander P. N. and Kowarik, Ingo (2018) Beyond green: Broad support for biodiversity in multicultural European cities. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS, 49. pp. 35-45. ISSN 0959-3780, 1872-9495
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While urban growth contributes to the biodiversity crisis, biodiverse greenspaces within cities could support both human wellbeing and biodiversity conservation. Yet, urban greenspaces are under pressure due to the rapid densification of cities worldwide. Urban conservation policies thus need broad support, ideally from people with different sociocultural backgrounds. Whether urban residents prefer biodiverse over simply green spaces, however, largely remains an open question. We tested how diverse respondents (N = 3716) from five European cities valued three levels of biodiversity (plant species richness) in four ubiquitous greenspace types. Our field survey revealed that biodiversity matters: People largely prefer higher plant species richness in urban greenspaces (i.e., parks, wastelands, streetscapes) and agree that higher plant species richness allows for more liveable cities. Despite variation across European cities, positive valuations of high plant species richness prevailed among different sociocultural groups, including people of migrant background. The results of this study can thus support policies on a biodiversity-friendly development and management of urban greenspaces by highlighting social arguments for integrating biodiversity into urban development plans.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS; ROADSIDE VEGETATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; SCENIC BEAUTY; URBAN; SPACE; PERCEPTIONS; CHALLENGES; SAFETY; PREFERENCES; Urban nature; Biocultural diversity; Environmental valuation; Green cities; Human wellbeing; Migration background |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Pädagogik |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2020 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2020 09:54 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/14924 |
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