Journal article
Urban wildscapes and green spaces in Mombasa and their potential contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation
Environment and Urbanization, Vol.23(1), pp.251-265
2011
Abstract
Well-planned urban green landscapes, including wildscapes and green spaces, have the potential to contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Yet for cities in low-income countries, the value of these urban landscapes in climate change response strategies is often disregarded and remains largely unexploited and unaccounted for. This paper discusses the potential role of urban green landscapes as a "soft engineering" climate change response strategy, and calls for the pursuance of management practices that preserve and promote the use of these urban spaces. It does so by combining theoretical arguments with an empirical example based on an innovative and novel approach to landscape rehabilitation, the Lafarge Ecosystems Programme, in the coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya. The paper finds that a well-managed system of green landscapes in resource-poor urban areas can generate net social benefits under a range of future scenarios. It further finds that climate change adaptation and mitigation responses can be initiated by a range of stakeholders operating at all scales.
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- Title
- Urban wildscapes and green spaces in Mombasa and their potential contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Authors
- J Kitha (Author) - Macquarie UniversityAnna Lyth (Author) - University of Tasmania
- Publication details
- Environment and Urbanization, Vol.23(1), pp.251-265
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2011
- DOI
- 10.1177/0956247810396054
- ISSN
- 0956-2478
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450505202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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