Urban Biodiversity and Sensitive Urban Design: Integrating Ecological Principles into City Planning
A Special Issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X) belonging to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2026 | Viewed by 126
Editors
Interests: urban biodiversity; conservation biology; urban wildlife ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Incorporating urban biodiversity principles and key concepts from urban design into urban planning is key for addressing biodiversity conservation and management issue. Recent advances in urban biodiversity research have identified the importance of planning and design decisions at multi-scales that influence plant and animal populations and communities in cities. Additional research suggests the importance of socioeconomic patterns within cities, which often drive planning and management decisions, resulting in different biodiversity outcomes.
Researchers and practitioners around the world are engaged in management and conservation efforts that address biodiversity. Much of this research is missing from the published urban biodiversity literature.
This Special Issue will compile fundamental and applied papers to give insights about applications of research on urban biodiversity and urban planning to the practice of management and conservation in cities.
This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Urban wildlife conservation and management;
- Managing vegetation in cities;
- Incorporating biodiversity, green infrastructure, and nature-based solutions into city planning;
- Urban biodiversity and human-wildlife conflicts;
- Urban biodiversity and planned communities;
- Linking green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and biodiversity;
- Case studies from cities on urban biodiversity and urban planning;
- Planning for urban biodiversity that addresses social justice and patterns of socioeconomic inequality.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Charles Nilon
Dr. Robert A. Pierce
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green infrastructure
- nature based design
- urban wildlife
- urban forestry
- urban biodiversity
- human–nature interactions
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