TY - CHAP
T1 - Urban green spaces in a post-apartheid city
T2 - challenges and opportunities for nature-based solutions
AU - Giombini, Valentina
AU - Thorn, Jessica
N1 - The authors thank Climate Research 4 Development fellowship (CR4D-19-21) for funding the Urban Ecolution project – implemented by the African Academy of Sciences in partnership with the UK’s Department for International Development, Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa programme and the African Climate Policy Centre of the United Economic Commission for Africa. This study has also been funded in part by the African Women in Climate Change Science Fellowship supported by the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences Next Einstein Forum and the International Development Research Centre of Canada Aid, the UK’s Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund under the Development Corridors Partnership project (ES/P011500/1).
PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - Cities in sub-Saharan countries are simultaneously facing climate change, rapid urbanisation, and social inequalities. Nature-based Solutions harness nature’s benefits to address these environmental, social, and economic challenges. In this study, we investigate how taking into account temporal dynamics and multiple values of nature helps to implement better Nature-based Solutions. Through satellite images and interviews with practitioners and residents, we look at how green spaces and dry riverbeds are distributed, managed, and perceived in the capital city of Namibia, south-western Africa. We find that apartheid spatial segregation legacies persist through the unequal distribution of urban green spaces, and that, although their current management limits their capacity to deliver benefits, riverbeds have the potential to support sustainable development and climate change adaptation.
AB - Cities in sub-Saharan countries are simultaneously facing climate change, rapid urbanisation, and social inequalities. Nature-based Solutions harness nature’s benefits to address these environmental, social, and economic challenges. In this study, we investigate how taking into account temporal dynamics and multiple values of nature helps to implement better Nature-based Solutions. Through satellite images and interviews with practitioners and residents, we look at how green spaces and dry riverbeds are distributed, managed, and perceived in the capital city of Namibia, south-western Africa. We find that apartheid spatial segregation legacies persist through the unequal distribution of urban green spaces, and that, although their current management limits their capacity to deliver benefits, riverbeds have the potential to support sustainable development and climate change adaptation.
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - River networks
KW - Namibia
KW - Environmental justice
KW - Urban green infrastructure
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01980-7
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-01980-7_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-01980-7_17
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783031019791
SN - 9783031019821
SP - 207
EP - 219
BT - Human-nature interactions
A2 - Ieva Misiune, Daniel
A2 - Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -
