Resource type:
Business
Link to knowledge resource
Main entity:
World Bank
Type of entity:
IGO
Funding:
N/A
Key themes:
Green infrastructure
Societal challenges:
Green Space Management
Place Regeneration & Knowledge
Social Capacity Building for Sustainable Urban Transformation
Scope:
Global
Description:
This paper illustrates how built heritage can both benefit from NbS and contribute to their wider success, focusing on 10 key benefits of NbS in cities: improving health, sequestering carbon, enhancing biodiversity, providing acoustic comfort, reducing the urban heat island, enhancing sustainable water management, facilitating urban agriculture, improving air quality, contributing to economic vitality through jobs and investment and enhancing social cohesion. This paper encourages built heritage in cities to be seen as a unique opportunity for NbS rather than as a barrier founded on generalised perceptions of nature as a threat to materials, values, and practices.
Date:
2021
Journal:
Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
Language:
EN
