Making Green Cities: Concepts, Challenges and Practice
In: Cities and Nature Series
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor, Co-Editors and Contributors -- The Concepts-Green City, Urban Nature, Benefits -- The Green City: General Concept -- 1 What Does "The Green City" Mean? -- 2 What is Urban Nature? -- 3 What is Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure? -- 4 How Do Cities Implement the Green City Concept? -- References -- The Urban Nature Concept-of What Urban Green Consists of -- 1 The Four Urban Natures Approach -- 2 Urban Woodlands-Remnants of Pristine Landscapes -- 3 Public Urban Parks-Designed Urban Green Spaces -- 4 Urban Gardens-The Private Urban Green -- 5 Urban Waters-The Urban Blue Infrastructure -- 6 New Urban Wildernesses-Novel Urban Ecosystems -- References -- The Benefit Concept-How People Can Benefit from Urban Nature -- 1 What We Expect from Urban Nature -- 2 Which Ecosystems Provide Which Ecosystem Services? -- 3 How Can Urban Ecosystem Services Be Assessed? -- 4 Biodiversity as an Urban Concept -- References -- Urban Agriculture-More Than Food Production -- Urban Agriculture-More Than Food Production -- 1 Urban Agriculture: An Introduction -- References -- Allotment Gardens Contribute to Urban Ecosystem Service: Case Study Salzburg, Austria -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Allotment Gardens -- 1.2 Allotment Gardens Provide Ecosystem Services -- 1.3 Aim -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Study Area -- 2.2 Questioning of Allotment Holders -- 3 Results -- 3.1 The Allotment Gardeners -- 3.2 Where the Gardeners Come From -- 3.3 Reasons for Allotment Gardening -- 3.4 Utilization of the Allotment Plot and Public Green Spaces -- 3.5 Partitioning of the Allotment Gardens -- 3.6 Changes Undertaken in the Gardens -- 3.7 Food Production -- 3.8 Experiencing Nature (Learning and Teaching About Nature) -- 3.9 Ecological Gardening and Environmental Behavior -- 4 Discussion.