Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces
This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into ‘success’ and/or ‘failure’. The provision, care and use of natural landsca
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Nicola Dempsey Julian Dobson Editors
Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces
Cities and Nature Series Editors Peter Newman, Sustainability Policy Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia Cheryl Desha, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia Alessandro Sanches-Pereira , Instituto 17, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Cities and Nature fosters high-quality multi-disciplinary research addressing the interface between cities and the natural environment. It provides a valuable source of relevant knowledge for researchers, planners and policy-makers. The series welcomes empirically based, cutting-edge and theoretical research in urban geography, urban planning, environmental planning, urban ecology, regional science and economics. It publishes peer-reviewed edited and authored volumes on topics dealing with the urban and the environment nexus, including: spatial dynamics of urban built areas, urban and peri-urban agriculture, urban greening and green infrastructure, environmental planning, urban forests, urban ecology, regional dynamics and landscape fragmentation. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10068
Nicola Dempsey • Julian Dobson Editors
Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces
Editors Nicola Dempsey Department of Landscape Architecture University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK
Julian Dobson Department of Landscape Architecture University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK
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