Urban Landscapes as Learning Arenas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Management

摘要: Using examples from Asia, Africa, and North America, we demonstrate how restoration stewardship projects, including those with significant community engagement, provide opportunities for environmental biodiversity learning in cities. Although research on such programs is its initial stages, several studies show positive impacts of urban education related field science inquiry experiences participant attitudes, awareness nature, understanding, self-efficacy, greater effects correlated degree involvement hands-on, field-based experiences. In addition, that actively engage participants reflect social equity, participatory, principles central to global initiatives sustainability. Such projects also current theories focusing the ways children construct understanding phenomena they encounter everyday life (constructivism) describe as an outcome interaction socio-cultural bio-physical environment (social learning). While recognizing importance school-based learning, our case illustrate myriad out-of-school arenas connected which civil society groups, government, volunteers collaboratively stewardship, pond create dragonfly habitat Japanese cities, indigenous species at Edith Stephens Wetland Park Cape Flats, South gardening vacant lots other degraded spaces USA. More formal daylighting Cheonggye-cheon River Seoul, Korea, well botanic gardens feature biological cultural diversity, integrate nature-based, cultural, historical, opportunities. Given many are local scope, partnerships UN Education Sustainable Development Convention Biological Diversity Communication, Public Awareness, NGOs, governments, business, needed leverage these effect broader regional, national, even systemic change.