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Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Room

Hall A

URBAN ECOLOGY & ECOCITIES

Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Room

Hall A

Lecture Time
01:00 PM - 01:10 PM

FASCINATION IN POLLINATORS UNDERLIES GARDENER INTENTIONS FOR POLLINATOR-FRIENDLY BEHAVIOR: IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN NATURE CONSERVATION

Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Room

Hall A

Lecture Time
01:10 PM - 01:20 PM

Abstract

Abstract Body

Pollinating insects are an essential component of biodiversity and provide important ecosystem services, such as flower pollination. Cities are becoming increasingly important habitats for wild pollinators and their conservation, including urban gardens. Urban gardeners that create and steward these urban habitats are thereby important actors in urban pollinator conservation. In garden management, ‘pro-pollinator’ management actions may relate to the way that gardeners perceive, experience and relate to nature, but these relationships between people’s perceptions, emotions and nature-relatedness and their gardening activity are largely unclear. To better inform public engagement in pollinator conservation, we examined urban gardeners' identity, emotions, and attitudes toward pollinators and investigated the factors that influence pollinator-friendly behavioral intentions in their gardening practice and their pollinator-friendly behavior in the context of a citizen science project on wild pollinator conservation in community gardens in Berlin, Germany. We surveyed participants and non-participants in the research to investigate how identity, emotions and attitudes may predict behavior, using participation in the CS project as a proxy for pollinator-friendly behavior. We found that positive attitudes towards pollinators and ‚fascination‘ had high predictive potential for behavioural intentions to get involved in pollinator protection. In contrast, ‚interest‘ had high predictive potential to join the CS project. Our study shows the importance of emotions for public engagement in pollinator conservation. Supporting other work in gardens and the cognitive hierarchy of human behavior, we confirm that attitudes and emotions towards pollinators have predictive potential on behavioral intentions on pollinator-friendly behavior. However, also our results show that attitude does not necessarily lead to action, which suggests missing (and needed) interventions.

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COMPACT URBAN GREEN SPACE

Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Room

Hall A

Lecture Time
01:20 PM - 01:30 PM

Abstract

Abstract Body

As cities are getting denser and larger, space for conventional green features is diminishing. Cities without green alienate people from nature, deteriorate ecological systems and directly harm personal well-being. Limited open areas and many sealed surfaces in today’s cities raise the need for a renewed green space approach that fits in an increasingly dense and compact urban landscape; an approach in which green space is not limited to large open spaces at ground level, but one where greenery is truly integrated with built structures. The concept of compact urban green space is used in this study to refer to green space compatible with this approach. Too often, green features on buildings and in small spaces solely serve aesthetic purposes and are treated as mere architectural decoration. This attitude results in pragmatic but disconnected interventions with little added value to ecology and well-being.

This study puts forward that urban planners and landscape architects should embrace these new and unconventional green spaces, because, when planned and designed from a larger social-ecological perspective, compact urban green space can functionally solve several urban challenges simultaneously, and improve ecological quality as well as human well-being. This paper aims to relate ecological resilience to personal well-being and describes how proper planning and design of compact urban green space can augment both aspects.

When small green spaces form a visible and accessible spatial network that engages communities and connects local ecological qualities, their impact increases. A better understanding of the structure and potential of new compact urban green spaces can be achieved by approaching them as related patterns interacting at and across different scales. In this study, novel compact space types, such as rooftop landscapes, bioreceptive building envelopes and topographic building blocks are tested in the spatial and social context of Rotterdam. This design experiment provides insights into how multidimensional green structures and networks can improve well-being and ecological resilience in future compact cities.

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TRADITIONAL WATER SYSTEMS: LEARNING FROM LONG-LASTING CULTURES

Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Room

Hall A

Lecture Time
01:30 PM - 01:40 PM

Abstract

Abstract Body

Research of traditional water systems offer insights on comprehensive, diverse and circular water management models.[1] Since ancient times, people worldwide have transformed natural surface water into ingenious and controlled water systems, making it possible to settle and cultivate all kinds of topographies according to the water sources' possibilities, knowledge, and climate conditions. These transformations asked for precise reading of the landscape and the necessity to balance water and land, permeable and impermeable surfaces. "The primitive logic of cut-and-fill and differences in micro-topography was a powerful tool. Levels of inundation determined distinct land uses, and therefore the definition of wet/dry, productive/inhabited, and safe/ unsafe parts of the land mosaic was considered essential."[2]

As a reaction to changes, as population growth, land use, and climate variations, innovative measures to retain, infiltrate, drain, flood, and reuse water was taken by those living in and knowing the territory. These so-called "traditional water systems" have been crucial in developing thriving and prosperous societies. Some of the water systems are still in use, indicating the inevitable involvement (care) of people. These systems offer vivid insights for more communal, people-oriented, resilient, ecologically rich and multifunctional approaches towards the landscape. Therefore, researching and learning from traditional water systems deliver lessons for redesigning today's anonymous, technical-driven water management systems into more circular landscapes.

[1] The research is conducted by graduate students of the Circular Water Stories (CWS) lab, studio Flowscapes in the master track of Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft, the Netherlands.

[2] K. Shannon (2019).

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AVIAN CONSERVATION IN A CHANGING URBAN LANDSCAPE

Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Room

Hall A

Lecture Time
01:40 PM - 01:50 PM

Q&A

Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Room

Hall A

Lecture Time
01:50 PM - 02:15 PM