Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework
With the increasing loss of biodiversity due to urbanization, it is essential to examine and re-imagine the place of nature in cities. The opportunity to redesign positive relationships between cities and nature is particularly apparent in the development of new cities—rapidly developing areas obser...
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| author | Shaikh Fairul Edros bin Shaikh Ahmad Hamel, Perrine |
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| description | With the increasing loss of biodiversity due to urbanization, it is essential to examine and re-imagine the place of nature in cities. The opportunity to redesign positive relationships between cities and nature is particularly apparent in the development of new cities—rapidly developing areas observed in many Asian and African countries. As these new cities are built on a perceived tabula rasa, there is a potential to design positive nature futures. This study, therefore, aims to understand how nature is incorporated into existing plans for new cities and identify pro-nature perspectives envisioned within these plans. We use the Urban Nature Futures Framework (UNFF) to conduct a content analysis on the masterplans of new city and town developments within the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA). The UNFF promotes the creation of multiple positive visions of nature in cities by considering three broad nature perspectives: Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture, as well as emphasizing equity in these visions. Our findings show that the Nature for Society perspective tends to dominate the design of new cities in the JMA, closely followed by the Nature for Nature perspective embodied by pollution control measures. New cities also emphasise the Nature as Culture perspective through nature stewardship programmes. Based on these results, we exemplify how the UNFF can be used to further integrate nature elements in new cities’ masterplans. We conclude with a discussion of the strengths and limitations of the framework at each stage of the new city development process. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1742832024-03-25T15:30:46Z Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework Shaikh Fairul Edros bin Shaikh Ahmad Hamel, Perrine Asian School of the Environment Earth Observatory of Singapore Earth and Environmental Sciences Nature futures framework New towns With the increasing loss of biodiversity due to urbanization, it is essential to examine and re-imagine the place of nature in cities. The opportunity to redesign positive relationships between cities and nature is particularly apparent in the development of new cities—rapidly developing areas observed in many Asian and African countries. As these new cities are built on a perceived tabula rasa, there is a potential to design positive nature futures. This study, therefore, aims to understand how nature is incorporated into existing plans for new cities and identify pro-nature perspectives envisioned within these plans. We use the Urban Nature Futures Framework (UNFF) to conduct a content analysis on the masterplans of new city and town developments within the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA). The UNFF promotes the creation of multiple positive visions of nature in cities by considering three broad nature perspectives: Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture, as well as emphasizing equity in these visions. Our findings show that the Nature for Society perspective tends to dominate the design of new cities in the JMA, closely followed by the Nature for Nature perspective embodied by pollution control measures. New cities also emphasise the Nature as Culture perspective through nature stewardship programmes. Based on these results, we exemplify how the UNFF can be used to further integrate nature elements in new cities’ masterplans. We conclude with a discussion of the strengths and limitations of the framework at each stage of the new city development process. National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This research is funded by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore (award NRF-NRFF12-2020-0009). 2024-03-25T06:30:15Z 2024-03-25T06:30:15Z 2023 Journal Article Shaikh Fairul Edros bin Shaikh Ahmad & Hamel, P. (2023). Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework. Sustainability Science. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01411-3 1862-4065 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174283 10.1007/s11625-023-01411-3 2-s2.0-85171534256 en NRF-NRFF12-2020-0009 Sustainability Science © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Earth and Environmental Sciences Nature futures framework New towns Shaikh Fairul Edros bin Shaikh Ahmad Hamel, Perrine Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework |
| title | Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework |
| title_full | Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework |
| title_fullStr | Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework |
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| title_short | Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework |
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| topic | Earth and Environmental Sciences Nature futures framework New towns |
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