From wear and tear to urban nature stewardship: Insights from the research and practice of combining biodiversity conservation and outdoor recreation in multifunctional landscapes
Session 23
Introduction to the session
Urban areas constitute the interface of dense human populations and biodiversity rich landscapes of ecological significance. The biodiversity of urban nature supports the generation of essential benefits to human health/well-being and contributes to the mitigation of environmental problems. With urbanization, this urban nature is transformed and shrinking at a rapid pace. The question is: how can the remaining and increasingly multi-functional, green and blue spaces be planned, managed and used, to sustainably maintain and (re)generate these benefits, while supporting the ecological integrity of these spaces?
This session provides a trans-disciplinary platform for in-depth dialogues, to explore sustainable and feasible ways for both facilitating outdoor recreation and preserving biodiversity in urbanizing landscapes. Key insights from ongoing inter-disciplinary research and examples of progressive practices from public and civic actors will be shared as a starting point for the knowledge co-production in this session, involving all participants.
Session programme
11:00: Recreation ecology in urbanizing landscapes – Welcome and Introcution.
Sara Borgström
11:05: Urban nature enabling of human health and wellbeing.
Marcus Hedblom
11:12: Measuring the social-ecological capacity of peri-urban landscapes for land-sharing and land-sparing – a data-driven spatially-explicit model.
Amin Rastandeh
Sara Borgström
11:17: Nurturing children’s connection and care for nature - practices of fostering environmental stewardship and care among Swedish outdoor recreation organizations.
Kristin Malmcrona Friberg
Sara Borgström
Märit Jansson
11:22: A co-creative tool for enabling local collaboration in urbanizing, multi-functional landscapes.
Sara Borgström
Karin Svärd Hertel
11:27: Interactive collection of audience reflections, questions and insights.
11:37: Panel dialogue:
- Peder Curman, Municipal ecologist, Järfälla municipality
- Klara Tullback Rosenström, Environmental strategist, Stockholm County Administrative Board
- Eva Sandberg, Director of the Center for Nature Interpretation, SLU
- Maria Strandberg, Director of research and evelopment at the Scandinavian Turfgrass and Environment Research Foundation, Sterf.
- Eva Lindberg, Organizational developer, Swedish Association for Nature Conservation
- NN, Västkuststiftelsen
- NN, Swedish Outdoor Association
12:20: Collection and presentation of take away messages from audience and thank you from session organizers!
12:30: Session closes
Further information about the session
Keywords: Urban nature, Multifunctional landscapes, Outdoor recreation, Biodiversity conservation, Knowledge co-creation
Language: English
Time and venue: 11:00-12:30, Sydamerika.
Organisers:
Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH:
- Sara Borgström, Associate Professor
- Amin Rastandeh, Postdoctoral Researcher,
- Kristin Malmcrona Friberg, Doctoral student
Strategy for transformative change in focus for the session
IPBES highlights 5 complementary key strategies for transformative change: From conserving vital places to shifting values. Together these create pathways to just and sustainable futures. Learn more: IPBES Transformative Change Assessment: Chapter 5. Realizing a sustainable world for nature and people: transformative strategies, actions and roles for all
As indicated in the illustration below, session 23 focuses mainly on strategies:
1: Conserve and regenerate places of value to nature and people.
4: Transform governance systems to be integrative, inclusive, accountable and adaptive.
5: Shift views and values to recognize human-nature interconnectedness
