Multiple Roles of Green Space in the Resilience, Sustainability and Equity of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Cities

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aut.relation.endpage1022
aut.relation.issue7
aut.relation.journalLand
aut.relation.startpage1022
aut.relation.volume13
dc.contributor.authorBlaschke, P
dc.contributor.authorPedersen Zari, M
dc.contributor.authorChapman, R
dc.contributor.authorRandal, E
dc.contributor.authorPerry, M
dc.contributor.authorHowden-Chapman, P
dc.contributor.authorGyde, E
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-19T00:59:30Z
dc.date.available2024-08-19T00:59:30Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-08
dc.description.abstractGreen space is needed in urban areas to increase resilience to climate change and other shocks, as well as for human health and wellbeing. Urban green space (UGS) is increasingly considered as green infrastructure and highly complementary to engineered urban infrastructure, such as water and transport networks. The needs for resilient, sustainable and equitable future wellbeing require strategic planning, designing and upgrading of UGS, especially in areas where it has been underprovided. We explore the implications of these needs for urban development through a detailed review of cited UGS analyses conducted on the larger cities in Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ). There are important differences in UGS availability (i.e., quantity), accessibility and quality within and between cities. Some of these differences stem from ad hoc patterns of development, as well as topography. They contribute to apparently growing inequities in the availability and accessibility of UGS. Broader health and wellbeing considerations, encompassing Indigenous and community values, should be at the heart of UGS design and decisionmaking. Most of AoNZ’s cities aim (at least to some extent) at densification and decarbonisation to accommodate a growing population without costly sprawl; however, to date, sprawl continues. Our findings indicate a clear need for the design and provision of high-quality, well-integrated UGS within and servicing areas of denser housing, which are typically areas in cities with a demonstrable UGS deficiency.
dc.identifier.citationLand, ISSN: 2073-445X (Print); 2073-445X (Online), MDPI AG, 13(7), 1022-1022. doi: 10.3390/land13071022
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/land13071022
dc.identifier.issn2073-445X
dc.identifier.issn2073-445X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17905
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.relation.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/7/1022
dc.rights© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject33 Built Environment and Design
dc.subject3301 Architecture
dc.subject3304 Urban and Regional Planning
dc.subjectClinical Research
dc.subjectHealth Disparities
dc.subject3.2 Interventions to alter physical and biological environmental risks
dc.subject11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject0502 Environmental Science and Management
dc.subject3301 Architecture
dc.subject3304 Urban and regional planning
dc.subject4104 Environmental management
dc.titleMultiple Roles of Green Space in the Resilience, Sustainability and Equity of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Cities
dc.typeJournal Article
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