Biodiverse Residential Development: A Review of New Zealand Policies and Strategies for Urban Biodiversity

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aut.relation.articlenumber128276
aut.relation.endpage128276
aut.relation.journalUrban Forestry and Urban Greening
aut.relation.startpage128276
aut.relation.volume94
dc.contributor.authorVarshney, K
dc.contributor.authorMacKinnon, M
dc.contributor.authorZari, MP
dc.contributor.authorShanahan, D
dc.contributor.authorWoolley, C
dc.contributor.authorFreeman, C
dc.contributor.authorHeezik, YV
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-07T03:09:17Z
dc.date.available2024-06-07T03:09:17Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-01
dc.description.abstractUrban residential development is expanding globally to accommodate increasing housing demand, greatly impacting biodiversity and human wellbeing. Enhanced sustainability of these developments requires an integrated approach to conserving, supporting, and restoring biodiversity through the built environment and understanding the implications of residential development policies, regulations, and guidelines. This paper details a review of current New Zealand policies, strategies, planning documents, and design guidelines that inform urban design and planning at national, regional, and local levels. Three major gaps in biodiversity considerations and opportunities for improvement in residential developments were identified. Firstly, current policies and strategies tend to protect significant indigenous habitats, but the interventions required to improve or retain biodiversity in residential developments are not explicitly considered. Secondly, there is a need for design guidelines with explicit biodiversity outcomes. Thirdly, existing planning documents and guidelines do not account for biodiversity monitoring and management and could be amended to include biodiversity-related outcomes. We conclude that current New Zealand policies and strategies related to residential developments are inadequate and fail to recognise or encourage the enhancement of urban biodiversity in any meaningful way. Holistic and strategic ecosystem-based approaches are required to protect and enhance urban biodiversity and human wellbeing through the built environment to ensure that biodiversity continues to thrive in New Zealand cities and enrich the lives of urban residents.
dc.identifier.citationUrban Forestry and Urban Greening, ISSN: 1618-8667 (Print); 1610-8167 (Online), Elsevier BV, 94, 128276-128276. doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128276
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128276
dc.identifier.issn1618-8667
dc.identifier.issn1610-8167
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17630
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866724000748
dc.rights© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject4406 Human Geography
dc.subject44 Human Society
dc.subject15 Life on Land
dc.subject11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject0502 Environmental Science and Management
dc.subject0705 Forestry Sciences
dc.subjectForestry
dc.subject3007 Forestry sciences
dc.subject4104 Environmental management
dc.subject4406 Human geography
dc.titleBiodiverse Residential Development: A Review of New Zealand Policies and Strategies for Urban Biodiversity
dc.typeJournal Article
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