Urban Restoration: Social Opportunities and Constraints

M Kilvington; Jo Rosier; R Wilkinson; C Freeman

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Urban Restoration: Social Opportunities and Constraints

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Urban Restoration: Social Opportunities and Constraints

M Kilvington, Jo Rosier, R Wilkinson and C Freeman

Symposium for Restoring the Health and Wealth of Ecosystems, 1998 (Christchurch, New Zealand, 28-Sep-1998–30-Sep-1998)

Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research

1998

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Environmental Science and Management

ecological restoration

public perceptions

urban revegetation

Christchurch, New Zealand

The climate created by international agreements such as the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity and New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 is placing a responsibility on local and regional authorities to reclaim the concept of biodiversity protection from its use in predominantly wilderness areas and apply it to highly modified pastoral and urban environments. In developing alternative plans for landscape restoration and rehabilitation in such strongly people-oriented environments, consideration must be given to peoples' values and attitudes to urban vegetation, their understanding of indigenous ecosystems, and their acceptance of natives compared with exotics. The most important sets of attitudes are those that present opportunities for community involvement in landscape transformation, and those that may pose barriers to change. Contemporary research on the main opportunities and constraints for community involvement in urban landscape transformation is summarised, and the results of a Christchurch pilot study are discussed and related to international experience.

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Title: Urban Restoration: Social Opportunities and Constraints
Authors: M Kilvington (Author) - Landcare Research
Jo Rosier (Author) - Massey University, New Zealand
R Wilkinson (Author) - Landcare Research
C Freeman (Author) - Massey University, New Zealand
Conference details: Symposium for Restoring the Health and Wealth of Ecosystems, 1998 (Christchurch, New Zealand, 28-Sep-1998–30-Sep-1998)
Publisher: Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
Date published: 1998
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449782702621
Output Type: Conference paper

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