O'Farrell, P;
Anderson, P;
Culwick, C;
Currie, P;
Kavonic, J;
McClure, A;
Ngenda, G;
... Wong, G; + view all
(2019)
Towards resilient African cities: Shared challenges and opportunities towards the retention and maintenance of ecological infrastructure.
Global Sustainability
, 2
(e19)
pp. 1-6.
10.1017/sus.2019.16.
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Abstract
There are significant challenges to retaining indigenous biodiversity and ecological infrastructure in African cities. These include a lack of formal protection and status for remnant ecologically functional patches rendering them open to ad hoc human settlement, which is in part linked to weak governance and management emerging from complex histories, and competing crisis-ridden demands. Persistent gaps in knowledge and practice mean that the social, economic, development and well-being benefits of ecological infrastructure are not understood or demonstrated. Addressing these challenges requires the adoption of multiple top-down government interventions and bottom-up community and neighbourhood actions. The development of detailed case studies that engage with knowledge generation and sharing at multiple scales through co-learning practices will also help create a much-needed deeper understanding of development options within this context.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Towards resilient African cities: Shared challenges and opportunities towards the retention and maintenance of ecological infrastructure |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/sus.2019.16 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2019.16 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10083014 |
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