Greening in the Red Zone: Urban biodiversity as opportunity in post-disaster & post-conflict contexts
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Urban biodiversity and greening can help recovery efforts in post-disaster and post-conflict areas. When community members actively participate in greening projects, it can provide health, social, and environmental benefits. Some of these benefits include improved individual and community well-being, environmental peacemaking, restarting social and ecological systems, preventing future disasters by developing self-reliance, and restoring a sense of place and social healing. Green spaces also represent opportunities to recognize the value of urban biodiversity in reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience to future challenges.
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- 1. Greening in the Red Zone: Urban biodiversity as opportunity in post- disaster & post-conflict contexts Keith G. Tidball Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab Presented at Rio +20 June 2012 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 3. Urban biodiversity is important in the post - disaster and post - conflict context Greening can enable or enhance recovery from disaster or conflict in situations where community members actively participate in greening, which in turn results in measurable benefits for themselves, their community, and the environment. • Urgent biophilia- individual health & wellbeing • Environmental peacemaking – societal • Restart social-ecological systems processes • Disaster prevention- developing self-reliance • Reconstruction and restoration of “sense of place” • Social healing and social movement • Environmental sustainability
- 4. Pre-disaster? Climate change adaptation? • Learn from these examples • Build anticipatory resilience • More green now is buffering capacity • More green now is investments in: • Sources of resilience • Reserves of social-ecological memory • “turn-key” restarts of urban ecosystem functions & processes • More green now is smart- multi-functionality- unlock several benefits on the same spatial area. • increases resilience • reduces vulnerability • restores natural capital
- 5. Green spaces & greening represent opportunities for recognizing the value of urban biodiversity in urban vulnerability, urban preparedness, and urban climate change adaptation. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- One of the things about cities is that they are paradoxical– they represent hot spots of vulnerability, but also hot spots of social-ecological innovation.