Governance of Critical Green Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 123
Special Issue Editor
Interests: urban resilience; urban agriculture; urban ecology; design and planning of green infrastructure; environmental justice; co-design and participatory methods of design and planning; self-build urbanism
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Globally, the governance of common green areas is becoming an increasingly critical factor enabling their preservation as well as their ecological functioning. Society is at a time in which the climate emergency is escalating and the mitigation that green infrastructure can provide becomes critical for absorbing carbon, protecting from extreme weather, and ameliorating the habitat of a biodiversity that is endangered. However, effective management that strengthens the existing provision of green infrastructure requires a scale of commitment and intervention that only national and local governments can organize. Yet, we increasingly observe the disengagement of authorities in this area on financial or even political grounds (e.g., lack of resources and exploitation of forests and green areas as a driver for economic growth). In fact, forest land diminished by 1% globally between 1990 and 2015 (http://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/en/). In Brazil, the conservation of rainforests, constituting a vast carbon sink and a habitat rich in biodiversity, is threatened by national policies abolishing the rights of local communities to protect the forest in which they live (Abessa et al., 2019). In developed countries, the governance of green spaces from people as a form of land active citizenship (Buijs et al. 2016) takes many forms that include volunteering for the protection and nurturing of forest land (Jerome et al., 2017) and the stewardship of urban green in community gardens (Andersson et al., 2014). Although active citizenship may result in the form of green infrastructure governance, it is once again an attempt by authorities to justify a lack of intervention in this area.
This Special Issue of Sustainability calls for articles exploring the future of governance of critical green infrastructure, especially from a climate change perspective. This Special Issue welcomes articles presenting case studies focusing on alternative effective systems of governance of green infrastructure, although theoretical contributions that are relevant to the topic can be submitted. There is no limitation to the geographical scope and scale of the study, as long as the significance of the green infrastructure examined to tackle the climate emergency is demonstrable.
Dr. Silvio Caputo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Green infrastructure
- Environmental governance systems
- Environmental protection
- Ecosystem services
- Climate emergency
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