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Biodiversity conservation and sustainable urban development

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posted on 2023-05-20, 16:59 authored by Kowarik, I, Fischer, LK, David Kendal
Urbanization is a major driver of environmental change and is closely linked to the future of biodiversity. Cities can host a high richness of plants and animals, and this urban biodiversity supports multiple regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services. Developing biodiversity-friendly cities is thus inextricably linked to sustainable urban development and human wellbeing. The contributions to this Special Issue on “Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Urban Development” in the journal Sustainability illustrate the role of urban environments as pressures on biodiversity, and envision pathways towards developing more biodiverse urban environments that are accepted and supported by people. Contributions reveal promising opportunities for conserving biodiversity within many urban landscapes. The insights from this Special Issue can support urban conservation policies and their implementation in the development of sustainable cities.

History

Publication title

Sustainability

Volume

12

Issue

12

Article number

4964

Number

4964

Pagination

1-8

ISSN

2071-1050

Department/School

School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences

Publisher

MDPI

Place of publication

Switzerland

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Copyright 2020 the authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Repository Status

  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Terrestrial biodiversity