Defining Natural Habitat Types as Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Planning

Author:

Dremel Manca12,Goličnik Marušić Barbara1,Zelnik Igor3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Trnovski Pristan 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

2. Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

3. Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

This study focuses on solving urban challenges, such as temperature reduction, urban stormwater management, noise reduction, air quality improvement, and CO2 concentration reduction, and suggests terrestrial and freshwater habitat types (HTs) found in Europe as innovative forms of nature-based solutions (NBSs). Establishing native HTs in various urban environments to solve urban challenges would enhance biodiversity at different levels and integrate this aspect into urban planning. This contribution builds on the recognition that vegetated surfaces are the most versatile NBS for addressing the broadest range of environmental problems in urban areas and on the understanding that the processes running within these green spaces offer the key to socio-ecological improvements of such areas. Employing a narrative literature review, qualitative content analysis, and interdisciplinary expert discussion, this paper defines why and how unaltered native HTs can be implemented as NBSs in the urban environment, indicates potential HTs for specific urban challenges, and presents an approach to the inclusion of HTs as NBSs in spatial planning documents at national, regional, and local levels. The proposed planning approach attributes added value to HTs and, by linking the concepts of NBSs and HTs, integrates them into urban planning.

Funder

the Slovenian Research Agency within the core research funding “Spatial Planning”

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction

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