Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice

IF 3 3区 管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS
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Novel ecosystems are those that have been altered by human activities and have afterwards experienced abandonment or human disuse, allowing for a new assemblage of species to establish. In urban areas, these ecosystems, are commonly found in post-industrial sites, vacant lots, and other unmanaged spaces. The informality of these ecosystems, assumptions of their low ecological value, and associations with negative attributes continue to prevent recognition of their social-ecological value. Although research in the last decade has started to show the potential of novel ecosystems to address several challenges such as biodiversity loss, there remains a need to understand what areas of research are needed to progress our understanding of these ecosystems in urban areas. This paper uses a modified Delphi methodology, in which a panel of knowledge-holders provided their understandings and insights of urban novel ecosystems. Through this process, we distilled key questions for future research and practice that should drive the investigation of these wild ecosystems for improved decision-making. This study sets out recommendations on how to progress the research questions as part of urban transformative agendas in which urban novel ecosystems offer new possibilities for climate experimentation, social-ecological stewardship and biodiversity conservation.
探索城市新生态系统:对未来研究和实践的理解、见解和建议
新生态系统是指那些曾被人类活动改变过的生态系统,在经历了废弃或人类废弃之后,新的物种组合得以建立。在城市地区,这些生态系统通常出现在后工业区、空地和其他无人管理的空间。这些生态系统的非正规性、对其生态价值低的假设以及与负面属性的联系继续阻碍着人们对其社会生态价值的认识。尽管过去十年的研究已开始显示出新型生态系统在应对生物多样性丧失等挑战方面的潜力,但我们仍需了解需要在哪些领域开展研究,以加深我们对城市地区这些生态系统的了解。本文采用了改进的德尔菲方法,由知识持有者组成的小组提供他们对城市新生态系统的理解和见解。通过这一过程,我们提炼出了未来研究和实践的关键问题,这些问题应推动对这些野生生态系统的调查,以改善决策。本研究就如何推进研究问题提出了建议,作为城市转型议程的一部分,城市新生态系统为气候实验、社会生态管理和生物多样性保护提供了新的可能性。
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Futures
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期刊介绍: Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures
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