Question 1: Urban rewilding is a momentous process being established in some cities. It is an effort to promote ecological conservation that is disrupted by large and bustling cities. It aspires to inject a piece of nature back into the land where it once stood before urban development. There are effectively few downsides to urban rewilding. Urban rewilding should be prioritized in cities because it can combat harmful air pollution and animal extinction, bring about the natural processes damaged by urban construction, and create a place for communal use and gatherings. Urban rewilding eliminates the harm caused by pollution and the diminishing of carbon dioxide in the air. “More than 80% of people living in urban areas are exposed to air quality …show more content…
This means that animals near the point of no return can thrive if given the opportunity. The results of urban rewilding prove to be beneficial to both animals and humans alike. The construction of monolithic cities has routinely pushed animals out of their homes and decimated biodiversity. “Rewilding” is a term usually used in connection with reintroducing an apex predator in an ecosystem to restore balance. A familiar example of this top-down approach to restoring balance would be the efforts to return the wolves to Yellowstone Park” (Source C). Countless attempts to reintroduce animals back to their natural ecosystems to restore their natural populations and create balance within an ecosystem are needed to prevent one species from dominating the rest. For example, frogs are needed to eat mosquitoes. If the frog population diminished, mosquitoes would become abundant. With the efforts of rewilding being pushed forward, we can witness near-extinct species flourish while restoring balance to an ecosystem. Urban rewilding offers another …show more content…
The urban rewilding process can help bring more people out of their homes and into nature. Some people have to travel long distances out of the city to look for a place to walk or hike in nature; this problem can be solved by providing a place nearby for public use. Urban rewilding has a favorable influence on the people who use the land it provides. According to Source E, the neighborhoods that had more forest coverage had fewer percentages of anxiety and depression. Nature is a positive force that is no longer ubiquitous, making an effort to restore it can have a profound effect on the human mind. The process of urban rewilding should be implemented in cities across the globe due to its numerous benefits, not just to animals and ecosystems, but to humans as well. Urban rewilding, no matter its accretion, will someday prove essential to urban development across the planet. The process of these environmental developments should be prioritized because they have multifarious functions. They can combat air pollution and animal extinction, bring back elements of biodiversity, and create places in nature for public
Look at the civilized, beautiful capital cities in every developed country all around the world which is the central of high fashioned and convenience facility. To live in the city, it seems like the nature surrounding is not important to us anymore. In “The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature” David Suzuki presents the connection between human and the nature and how we depend on the surrounding environment. However, within the past century, most of our modern technologies have been developed in order to provide people needs of goods and products (63). Many of the products we made are causing much more harm to the environment than the value that products provide. Technological development has damaged our environment to the point
The effects of deforestation around my home and throughout my state are becoming more evident every day. When a deer or other wild game loses its home, they move into cities, urban areas, and parks; thus causing issues with the human population. Most people living in Illinois have hit or nearly killed a deer driving on Southern Illinois roadways. This common occurrence could be kept at bay or maybe even avoided if the deer and wild game had more space to reside. There are many points that coincide with this reality but the main issues are the small subtle ones that affect everyday life and are often overlooked. Picture the Illinois we will leave for our children. Do you see a lush green forest or miles and miles of concrete and steel?
...rupt native species and ecosystem hence making the restoration of both evolutional and ecological potential almost impossible. Whereas Donlan (2005) concluded that re-wilding North American is the best conservation strategy to the African and Asian threatened megafauna, meanwhile re-wilding will restores the evolutionary and ecological potentials in the process. In my point of view, Pleistocene re-wilding must not be implemented simply because the introduced species might fail to adapt to the new environment. High costs and disease outbreak are another challenge that can’t be ignored.
This is most likely due to an ongoing dualism between the city and wilderness. On the surface, the city is artificial and unnatural while wilderness is all natural. Environmental historian William Cronon finds such views to be problematic. In his essay, “The Trouble with Wilderness,” Cronon argues that wilderness is only a concept created by us, and its high value oppositely impacts urban nature. He stresses that the latter is most consequential, as wilderness’s side in the dualism is exclusive to preserving it. Cronon quotes the radical environmentalist Dave Foreman, who sternly stated, “The preservation of wildness and native diversity is the most important issue. Issues directly affecting only humans pale in comparison.” Cronon indicates that if this is so, this means that several critical environmental problems are now unimportant. From health and safety concerns in industrial places to famine and poverty, these lose significance as they only affect humans and do not involve preserving wilderness. This is noteworthy to his argument as he states that giving this much importance to wilderness will only make everyone less human, and much of the world less legitimate (Cronon 20). It sets too high of an obstacle for urban nature to become an essential environmental concern, despite that “wildness” does have a presence outside of wilderness according to Cronon. Unfortunately, not enough environmentalists seem
Urban Consolidation Factors and Fallacies in Urban Consolidation: Introduction As proponents of urban consolidation and consolidated living continue to manifest in our society, we must ensure that our acknowledgment of its benefits, and the problems of its agitator (sprawl), do not hinder our caution over its continually changing objectives. Definition Like much urban policy, the potential benefits that urban consolidation and the urban village concept seek to offer are substantially undermined by ambiguous definition. This ambiguity, as expressed through a general lack of inter-governmental and inter-professional cohesion on this policy, can best be understood in terms of individual motives (AIUSH,1991). * State Government^s participatory role in the reduction of infrastructure spending.
There is a debate on whether urban rewilding is the next step to ecological restoration, as its goal is to restore natural processes and habitats in more urban areas. Rewilding is a worthwhile, beneficial approach to preserving nature, as well as implementing it into more urban environments. Enforcing the idea of rewilding in attempts to conserve nature and increase green space sparks opportunity. Writers Jepson, Paul, and Frans Schepers argue that the process "reflects innovation and creates the possibility for a common, but differentiated (situated) mode of conservation" (Document B). Saving as much wildlife as possible is a consistent motive in today's society.
In spite of the overwhelming amount of negative speculation, the practice of de-extinction might potentially produce some positive ramifications. According to Stewart Brand, a writer for National Geographic, humans should bring back extinct species “to preserve biodiversity, to restore diminished ecosystems...and to undo harm that humans have caused in the past.” If humans were to tamper with nature and bring back an extinct animal, desolate ecosystems which previously thrived, such as deserted islands, could be partially restored through their
Again, this section will give a working definition of the “urban question’. To fully compare the political economy and ecological perspectives a description of the “urban question” allows the reader to better understand the divergent schools of thought. For Social Science scholars, from a variety of disciplines, the “urban question” asks how space and the urban or city are related (The City Reader, 2009). The perspective that guides the ecological and the social spatial-dialect schools of thought asks the “urban question” in separate distinct terminology. Respected scholars from the ecological mode of thinking, like Burgess, Wirth and others view society and space from the rationale that geographical scope determines society (The City Reader, 2009). The “urban question” that results from the ecological paradigm sees the relationship between the city (space) as influencing the behaviors of individuals or society in the city. On the other hand...
De-extinction is a process that has been experimented with for many years, but has never been completely successful. The ethics and consequences of this idea have been questioned but, de-extinction has the potential to be truly helpful to humans and the environment, and many of the scenarios that people think could happen, are actually impossible. To actually revive a species, there are certain conditions that must be met, and the terrible situations that people think could happen, are unable to actually occur because of the lack of . Bringing species back that are beneficial to the environment could preserve biodiversity, restore diminished ecosystems, advance the science of preventing extinctions, and undo the harm that people have caused in the past. The true potential of the revival of species cannot be realized because people overdramatize the effects and possible outcomes. Once we realize and understand how beneficial the process of de-extinction can be we can better improve our world, our lives, and our ecosystems.
These motives are behind the current world’s 50% urbanization rate. Among all countries, Canada heads the urbanization process with 80% of its total area (Snell par.7). The ever-increasing urbanization rate is characterized by human-related destructive activities, which lead to creation of urban centers by destroying inherent biodiversity. The rate is increasing each passing day. However, one thing to note is that destructive activities embody the causes of urban biodiversity wicked problem. The easy way of identification provides land conversion, climate change, consumerism, land fragmentation, and invasive species as the main causes of the wicked problem of urban biodiversity. These causes constitute every aspect of urban life. For instance, there is no way that people living in urban areas can do without proper infrastructures (such as houses, roads, and communication lines). All kinds of infrastructure need space, and, in creating it, there is clearance of all natural vegetation and conversion of land to other uses. The result is annihilation of nature and predisposition of climatic changes. The only easy approach to identify an appropriate solution to the wicked problem of urban biodiversity is to decrease the rate of urbanization by
With more needs for nature experience and sustainable development in urban areas, increasing importance has been attached to urban open spaces since they play a crucial role to support the ecology system and form a natural network in the cities (Chiesura, 2004; Tzoulas et al., 2007). Urban open spaces include plazas, parks, campus, greenways and other green spaces. They serve as islands of nature, enriching urban landscapes, adjusting the microclimate, promoting biodiversity and providing habitats for other species (Chiesura, 2004; Do, Kim, Kim, & Joo, 2014; Morimoto, 2011). Apart from these benefits, they also show a great impact on urban dwellers’ health, since open spaces offer places for outdoor activities and opportunities for contact with nature (Chiesura, 2004). Tyrväinen et al. (2014) indicated that even short-term visits to urban green spaces have positive psychological and physiological effects on perceived stress relief. People were attracted to urban open spaces for physical activities, social interactions, and a relief from daily life, which benefit their mental and physical health (Thwaites, Helleur, & Simkins, 2005). A large epidemiological study in Britain looked at mortality and morbidity among three income levels in relation to urban residents’ access to green open space (Mitchell & Popham,
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Nowadays, more than half of the world population lives in cities. Urban populations consume 75% of the world 's natural resources and generate 75% of waste. Cities have become consumers of enormous amounts of natural resources and generating massive environmental
Surely there exist cities that are determined to transform into more eco-friendly representatives of urban civilization, yet these efforts are typically focused on minimizing the harmful output of cities rather than rew...
If there are more people, more, density, and a good mixture of uses, it will be a safer city... You cannot find a single city that does not wish to make the city center more vibrant or livelier.” This quote from Jan Gehl, the principal of Gehl Architects, illustrates the importance of having a sustainable city. The Central Park project has showcased to the world on how the landscape we design or occupy, can affect our daily activities and surrounding neighborhood. It sets an example of how design must be appreciated as a crucial factor in sustainability and emphasized on the fact the connection of people and nature should not be ignored. All in all, landscape architects are the ones to determine the physical characteristics of the public realm environment, to decide whether a city is attractive to people and whether people will choose to live in the city in the long