University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Urban Forester, City of Melbourne, 120 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia.
Environ Res. 2018 Feb;161:158-167. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.11.005. Epub 2017 Nov 14.
A nature-based approach to climate resilience aims to challenge and re-frame conventional environmental management methods by refocusing solutions from technological strategies to socio-ecological principles such as human well-being and community-based governance models, thereby improving and legitimizing the delivery of ecosystem services (ES). There are, however, many challenges to applying a socio-ecological agenda to urban climate resilience and thereby re-framing ES delivery as community and people focused, a knowledge gap extensively outlined in the environmental governance literature. In this paper, we aim to contribute to this re-assesment of urban environmental governance by examining the City of Melbourne's approach to urban re-naturing governance from a place-based perspective. Here we focus on the city's internationally-acclaimed urban forest strategy (UFS), investigating how and to which extent the governance arrangements embedded within the UFS draw strength from diverse perspectives and allow for institutional arrangements that support "situated" reflexive decision making and co-creation. We find that Melbourne's UFS governance process fosters green placemaking by re-focusing climate adaptation solutions from technological strategies to situated socio-ecological principles such as human well-being and community-based decision making. In this sense, this case provides valuable insight for the broader UGI governance field regarding the opportunities and challenges associated with a socio-cultural approach to urban re-naturing and ES delivery.
基于自然的方法旨在通过将解决方案从技术策略重新聚焦到社会生态原则，如人类福祉和基于社区的治理模式，来挑战和重新构建传统的环境管理方法，从而改善和使生态系统服务（ES）的提供合法化。然而，将社会生态议程应用于城市气候适应能力并将 ES 提供重新定位为以社区和人为重点存在许多挑战，这是环境治理文献中广泛概述的知识差距。在本文中，我们旨在通过从基于地点的角度考察墨尔本市对城市自然化治理的方法，为城市环境治理的重新评估做出贡献。在这里，我们专注于该市享有国际声誉的城市森林战略（UFS），研究 UFS 中嵌入的治理安排如何以及在何种程度上从不同的角度汲取力量，并为支持“情境”反思性决策和共同创造的制度安排提供支持。我们发现，墨尔本的 UFS 治理过程通过将气候适应解决方案从技术策略重新聚焦到人类福祉和基于社区的决策等情境社会生态原则，促进了绿色场所营造。从这个意义上说，这个案例为更广泛的 UGI 治理领域提供了有关社会文化方法在城市再自然化和 ES 提供方面的机会和挑战的宝贵见解。
