Biodiversity cries for TLC! There is current interest in the concept that biodiversity in cities amid sprawling development – needs space.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/flying-insects-have-declined-by-60-percent-in-the-uk-survey-finds
It’s not trite to say it. Biodiversity needs green space. Biodiversity needs more green-space. How do we do that?
We must ask, “What are the influences determining the spacial relationships between humans and nature in cities”.
By way of example,
e.g. special interests behind a substantial highway expansion; rationales for clear-cutting for townhouse development; even tree-cutting to make way for a cycle path or, something as ‘innocent’ as walkers carving out an off-trail pedestrian path where wildlife may live and was once abundant.
Many examples can be cited. These are but a few. The evidence reveals: Habitat networks for nature and animals is shrinking worldwide.
In anthropology and the environmental humanities, scholars are studying shrinking trends and answering questions about “What is inter-urban biodiversity variation” and “What is ecological reflexivity”. Learn more about these subject areas here.
We can begin to look at possibilities: “Can biodiversity be more varied and more plentiful if green-space was strategically and deliberately expanded in bigger ways if as a society we lend ourselves to protecting it?”. There are paradigm shifts we can can make.
https://eventi.unibo.it/theecologicalturn-architettura-bologna-2020
https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2019/the-politics-of-the-anthropocene/
https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2226/
https://www.iccs.org.uk/content/icn-202021-workshop-theme-reflexive-turn-conservation
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2435164
https://kemp.unu-merit.nl/pdf/Voss%20Kemp%20Reflexive%20Governance%20FUTURES.pdf Berlin
http://somatosphere.net/2022/unequal-value-lives-harm-reduction-drug-use-ngos-canada.html/
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/research/current/socialtheory/maps/reflexivity/
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