Overview
- Focuses on the unique topic of national parks in large cities
- Involves intensive comparative work across four cities in four countries of the global South
- Each chapter picks up a specific issue and discusses them across the four sites of study
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Actors: Whose Parks?
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Front Matter
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Beyond Local Challenges: The City-Park Relationships
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Circulation of Practices, Discourses and Models
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Keywords
- urban parks
- Tijuana National Park
- Table Mountain National Park
- Sanjay Gandhi National Park
- Nairobi National Park
- urban protected areas
- encroachment in reserved park areas
- urban environment
- housing constraints and urban conservation
- indigenous people and urban parks
- urban poor and social integration
- social ecology
- conservation and social development
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
The term “naturbanity” expresses the necessity for cities endowed with a national park to integrate it into their functioning. Conversely, such parks must take into account their location in an urban environment, both as a source of heavy pressures on nature and as a nexus of incentives to support their conservation. The principle of non-exclusivity, that is, neither the city nor the park has a right nor even the possibility to negate the other’s presence, summarizes the main argument of this book. Naturbanity thus blurs the old “modern” dichotomy of nature/culture: animals and human beings can often jump the physical and ideological walls separating many parks from the adjacent city. The 13 chapters and substantive introduction of this volume discuss various aspects of naturbanity: the histories of park creation; interaction between people and parks; urban governance and parks; urban conservation models; wildlife management; environmental education; and so on. This is a must-read for students and researchers interested in social ecology, social geography, conservation, urban planning and ecological policy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global South
Book Subtitle: The Quest for Naturbanity
Editors: Frédéric Landy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8462-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8461-4Published: 02 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4158-8Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8462-1Published: 20 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 329
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Economics