小空间,大影响:幼儿园作为气候适应型城市绿色基础设施的关键节点

IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Dagmar Haase , Diana Dushkova
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在气候变化加剧和城市密度增加的背景下,城市中的绿色空间和绿色基础设施对于确保良好的生活质量、促进公共健康和维持城市生态系统服务变得越来越重要。这个试点筛选研究的重点是一个经常被忽视但非常重要的城市绿地类型:幼儿园绿地。这些空间对儿童的身体、心理和情感发展至关重要。它们提供了游戏和体育活动的机会,促进认知发展和学习,鼓励社会互动,促进与自然的联系,同时也有助于生物多样性和气候适应能力。然而,这些空间提供这些好处的程度可能有所不同。本研究旨在系统地评估这些空间支持儿童发展和气候适应能力的能力,并确定能够提高其教育、社会和生态价值的关键设计元素。采用定性测绘和标准化面对面访谈的方法,分析了莱比锡(德国人口最密集的大城市之一)10个居民区的21所幼儿园的绿色基础设施要素。开展了全面的非参与性观察和绘图过程,涵盖水平和垂直绿化、种植、生物多样性、儿童教育和游戏活动、水管理和升级回收等要素。该研究还确定了一些已经实施的基于自然的解决方案,以及它们在面对日益炎热的夏季时为最年轻的社会成员提供的生态系统服务。其中包括加强气候适应能力、促进生物多样性和支持幼儿的社会福祉。根据研究结果,本文提出了一系列建议,包括如何通过多样化的绿色和蓝色元素来增强幼儿园户外区域,鼓励有意识和更广泛地使用NBS,以及支持德国和欧洲幼儿园现有的可持续发展战略。
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Small spaces, big impact: Kindergartens as critical nodes in climate-resilient urban green infrastructure
In the context of intensified climate change and increasing urban density, green spaces and green infrastructure in cities are becoming ever more critical for ensuring a good quality of life, promoting public health, and maintaining urban ecosystem services. This pilot screening study focuses on an often overlooked but extremely important type of urban green space: the green spaces of kindergartens. These spaces are vital for children's physical, mental, and emotional development. They provide opportunities for play and physical activity, promote cognitive development and learning, encourage social interaction, and foster a connection with nature, while also contributing to biodiversity and climate resilience. However, the extent to which these spaces deliver these benefits can vary. This study aims to systematically evaluate the capacity of these spaces to support children's development and climate resilience, and to identify key design elements that can enhance their educational, social, and ecological value. Qualitative mapping and standardised face-to-face interviews were employed to analyse elements of green infrastructure in 21 kindergartens across ten residential districts in Leipzig, one of the most densely populated large cities in Germany. A comprehensive non-participatory observation and mapping process was carried out, covering elements such as horizontal and vertical greening, planting, biodiversity, children’s educational and play activities, water management, and upcycling. The study also identifies several nature-based solutions that have been implemented, as well as the ecosystem services they provide to the youngest members of society in the face of increasing summer heat. These include strengthening climate resilience, promoting biodiversity, and supporting the social well-being of young children. Based on the study results, a set of recommendations is provided on how to enhance kindergarten outdoor areas with diverse green and blue elements, encouraging conscious and broader use of NBS, and supporting existing sustainability strategies in kindergartens across Germany and Europe.
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来源期刊
CiteScore
11.70
自引率
12.50%
发文量
289
审稿时长
70 days
期刊介绍: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening is a refereed, international journal aimed at presenting high-quality research with urban and peri-urban woody and non-woody vegetation and its use, planning, design, establishment and management as its main topics. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening concentrates on all tree-dominated (as joint together in the urban forest) as well as other green resources in and around urban areas, such as woodlands, public and private urban parks and gardens, urban nature areas, street tree and square plantations, botanical gardens and cemeteries. The journal welcomes basic and applied research papers, as well as review papers and short communications. Contributions should focus on one or more of the following aspects: -Form and functions of urban forests and other vegetation, including aspects of urban ecology. -Policy-making, planning and design related to urban forests and other vegetation. -Selection and establishment of tree resources and other vegetation for urban environments. -Management of urban forests and other vegetation. Original contributions of a high academic standard are invited from a wide range of disciplines and fields, including forestry, biology, horticulture, arboriculture, landscape ecology, pathology, soil science, hydrology, landscape architecture, landscape planning, urban planning and design, economics, sociology, environmental psychology, public health, and education.
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