Overview
- Topical and high-stakes issues of interest to both planners and citizens
- Cross-sectorial approach, spanning from social sciences and urban planning to ecology and soil sciences, with a focus on urban wastelands
- Global insights: studies from nine countries in Europe, Asia and America
- A special chapter dedicated to multidisciplinary approaches
Part of the book series: Cities and Nature (CITIES)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Urban Wastelands as Biodiversity Hotspots
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Nature and People: Uses and Perceptions of Urban Wastelands
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Planning Nature With Urban Wastelands
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About this book
Faced with the growing demand for nature in cities, informal greenspaces are gaining the interest of various stakeholders - residents, associations, public authorities - as well as scientists. This book provides a cross-sectorial overview of the advantages and disadvantages of urban wastelands in meeting this social demand of urban nature, spanning from the social sciences and urban planning to ecology and soil sciences. It shows the potential of urban wastelands with respect to city dwellers’ well-being, environmental education, urban biodiversity and urban green networks as well as concerns regarding urban wastelands’ in relation to conflicts, and urban marketing. The authors provide a global insight through case studies in nine countries, mainly located in Europe, Asia and America, thus offering a broad perspective.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
As Associate Professor of Environmental Geography at the University of Tours (France), in the Planning & Environment Department, Francesca Di Pietro works on plant biodiversity in anthropogenic environments, at first in agricultural landscapes, later in urban ones. Her research focuses on plant communities of urban habitats such as public green spaces, urban wastelands, roadsides, community and individual gardens. Since 2011 she has worked on urban wastelands, coordinating work on their plant communities, informal uses, and how they are perceived.
Amélie Robert is currently a contract researcher and part-time lecturer at the University of Tours. Her research focuses on landscape dynamics, the identification of their drivers and ecosystem services, from a geohistorical perspective. More generally, she questions the interrelationships between societies and their environments in different contexts. She pays special attention to novel ecosystems, particularly in urban contexts, having contributed to several research programs in this field.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Wastelands
Book Subtitle: A Form of Urban Nature?
Editors: Francesca Di Pietro, Amélie Robert
Series Title: Cities and Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74882-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74881-4Published: 19 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74884-5Published: 20 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74882-1Published: 18 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2520-8306
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 37
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 78 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Ecology, Environmental Geography, Environmental Sociology