Greenspace is very crucial for quality of biography and sustainability of urban arena . But greenspace development does not keep up with urban development , precede to scarcity of greenspace in city . In her Ph.D. thesis at Copenhagen University , Carmen Aalbers ( senior research worker at Wageningen Environmental Research ) looked into the regional and local governing of greenspace in urban areas . She found what governing approaches can make greenspace more responsive to urban development . These insight help determination - makers on how to mix greenspace in urban development .
scarceness of greenspace in urban areas leads to missing out on significant benefit of ecosystem . Greenspace provide born services , such as reduction of flooding , groundwater restoration , attenuation of dirt pollution and reduction of urban high temperature . It also renders greenspace undivided , which bestow to socio - ecological inequality . For good example when flush people go away for greener areas , leave the down income groups behind . “ There is broad concern about the sustainability of urbanization ” , Carmen Aalbers say . “ Better brainstorm in regional governing of greenspace in functional urban areas helps to understand how greenspace can keep up with urban evolution . This ask for a study from the position of multilevel and multi - actor organisation : between state , market and civil club . Therefore I also looked into what is happening in local greenspace initiatives by citizens . ”
Governing approachesCarmen Aalbers ’ enquiry provides evidence on how to save greenspace and incorporate it in urban development . Five results are highlighted :
Multiple dimensionsThis thesis shows that integration of greenspace in urban growth has multiple dimensions : spatially , financially , functionally , and economically . Carmen Aalbers highlights : “ I am eager to go further , together with urban - rural alliance and national and outside researchers , to examine and deploy perspectives that came onward from the use of passage studies in my PhD research . ” Carmen Aalbers ’ enquiry adds new knowledge to the programmeMetropolitan Solutionsof Wageningen Environmental Research . With this programme , we require to achieve metropolitan solutions with the aim of make cities and metropolitan country that – in close relationship with the surrounding rural area – are livable , sizable and lively , and have round economies . With the University of Copenhagen for example , we are in the process of developing a new cooperation on the result of conveyance infrastructure innovation . This may form an important contribution to reducing the environmental impact of commutation , to strengthening of urban - rural interactions and desealing urban areas .
Source : Wageningen University & Research
