书目名称 | From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global South | 副标题 | The Quest for Naturb | 编辑 | Frédéric Landy | 视频video | | 概述 | Focuses on the unique topic of national parks in large cities.Involves intensive comparative work across four cities in four countries of the global South.Each chapter picks up a specific issue and di | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This important volume focuses on the sensitive issue of interrelationships between national parks situated near or within urban areas and their urban environment. It engages with both urban and conservation issues and and compares four national parks located in four large cities in the global South: Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Mumbai, and Nairobi. Though primarily undertaken as academic research, the project has intensively collaborated with the institutions in charge of these parks. The comparative structure of this volume is also original and unique: each of the chapters incorporates insight from all four sites as far as possible..The term “naturbanity” expresses the necessity for cities endowed with a national park to integrate it into their functioning. Conversely, such parks must take into account their location in an urban environment, both as a source of heavy pressures on nature and as a nexus of incentives to support their conservation. The principle of non-exclusivity, that is, neither the city nor the park has a right nor even the possibility to negate the other’s presence, summarizes the main argument of this book. Naturbanity thus blurs the old “modern” dichotomy of nat | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | 关键词 | urban parks; Tijuana National Park; Table Mountain National Park; Sanjay Gandhi National Park; Nairobi N | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8462-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-981-13-4158-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-10-8462-1 | copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 |
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