Making Green Work
Implementation Strategies in a New Generation of Urban Forests
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Víctor Sanz (0000-0002-9604-0925, Delft University of Technology), Sara Romero-Muñoz (0000-0001-9248-8936, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Sara Romero Muñoz, Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro (0000-0003-3444-1501, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Lorena Bello Gómez (Harvard University), Tanja Herdt (0000-0003-2789-0667, Delft University of Technology) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v7i2.5039 |
| OpenAlex | W4220860000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 47 |
The concept of “urban forest” (UF) is gaining momentum in urban planning in the context of climate adaptation. Principles from the field of urban forestry are mainstreamed into urban planning, but little is known about effective tools for the successful implementation of new UFs. This article presents explorative research comparing how three cities (Almere, Madrid, and Boston) are dealing with the planning of a UF project, and their alignment with distinct organisational and typological interpretations of a UF. We employed a mixed-methods approach to gain insights into the main goals of the project, their organisational structure, and the employed planning process through the analysis of project documents and expert interviews. Our results point to an effective mainstreaming of environmental questions among stakeholders, but also indicate a poor development of objective criteria for the success of a UF. We note that municipal planners circumvented current internal rigidities and barriers by relying on intermediaries and local academia as providers of external knowledge, or by facilitating experiments. Finally, our results show that there may not be just one UF type to achieve the desired environmental and social goals and overcome implementation barriers. Conversely, each of the governance and organisational models behind the implementation of each type present collaborative and mainstreaming challenges. Therefore, we see an opportunity in further research examining processes and institutions towards the collaborative building of UFs that could bridge gaps between top-down and bottom-up approaches and activate different types of agencies
Business · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Knowledge management · Mainstreaming · Pedagogy · Process management · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health
Mainstreaming Cross-cutting Issues
Tales of transforming cities
Longitudinal Field Research on Change
Mainstreaming climate adaptation
The Expert Interview and Changes in Knowledge Production
Urban Forests
Global urban reforestation can be an important natural climate solution
The Nature of ecosystem management
Decision-making of municipal urban forest managers through the lens of governance
Beyond top-down/bottom-up
Social sustainability and social acceptance in technology assessment
Urban transformative capacity
Participative backcasting
The Case Study as a Serious Research Strategy
Embodying the Environment in Everyday Life Practices
The Case Study Method as a Tool for Doing Evaluation
The Ethnic Composition of the Neighbourhood and Ethnic Minorities' Social Contacts
Spatializing States
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |