TY - JOUR
T1 - Active citizenship for urban green infrastructure
T2 - fostering the diversity and dynamics of citizen contributions through mosaic governance
AU - Buijs, Arjen E.
AU - Mattijssen, Thomas J. M.
AU - Van der Jagt, Alexander P. N.
AU - Ambrose-Oji, Bianca
AU - Andersson, Erik
AU - Elands, Birgit H. M.
AU - Steen Møller, Maja
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ENV.2013.6.2-5-603567) and participating partners in the GREEN SURGE research project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - Active citizens may contribute to the environmental, social, and institutional resilience of cities. This review discusses how citizen initiatives protect biodiversity hotspots, contribute to social cohesion, institutional innovation, and diversity in urban green space management. Challenges related to social inclusiveness, ecological connectivity and continuity suggest government involvement is pertinent, but needs to be refocused. To maximise environmental outcomes of active citizenship, governments may adopt an enabling and stimulating governance style that harnesses the transformative potential of active citizenship. This paper argues for mosaic governance to work with the heterogeneous array of people, institutions, and spatial practices associated with active citizenship. Mosaic governance aims for a context-sensitive way of urban green infrastructure planning, enhancing relationships between the diversity of landscapes and communities across cities.
AB - Active citizens may contribute to the environmental, social, and institutional resilience of cities. This review discusses how citizen initiatives protect biodiversity hotspots, contribute to social cohesion, institutional innovation, and diversity in urban green space management. Challenges related to social inclusiveness, ecological connectivity and continuity suggest government involvement is pertinent, but needs to be refocused. To maximise environmental outcomes of active citizenship, governments may adopt an enabling and stimulating governance style that harnesses the transformative potential of active citizenship. This paper argues for mosaic governance to work with the heterogeneous array of people, institutions, and spatial practices associated with active citizenship. Mosaic governance aims for a context-sensitive way of urban green infrastructure planning, enhancing relationships between the diversity of landscapes and communities across cities.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.01.002
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85012070381
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
ER -
