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DOI	10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128231
	A bottom-up perspective on green infrastructure in informal settlements: Understanding nature's benefits through lived experiences
	Kamjou, Elgar; Scott, Mark; Lennon, Mick
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1618-8667
EISSN	1610-8167
起始页码	94
卷号	94
英文摘要	Twenty per cent of the world's urban population lives in inadequate housing, including informal settlements (IS). This population often experience a low quality of life and faces multiple environmental challenges heightened by climate change, such as air pollution, flooding, and drought. While there is extensive academic literature substantiating the potential of enhancing green infrastructure (GI) as an effective approach to manage environmental risks, it is often overlooked as an academic focus in the analysis of development issues in informal settlements. Similarly, GI is neglected as an effective environmental approach and planning response in this context often due to a lack of clear understanding of its benefits. This perspective leads to considering GI as a luxury rather than essential in IS. To address this gap in the literature and by considering the socio-cultural importance of green infrastructure, this paper attempts to provide a bottom-up perspective on GI and the ecosystem services (ESS) it supplies for the residents of IS. To do so, two IS in Tehran metropolitan area, Iran, have been studied. Through semi-structured interviews, residents' conceptions of ESS provided by GI were explored to identify the in/significance of GI in their daily life. The results show that residents' lived experiences provided them with a profound understanding of the benefits of nature and GI. Through analysing residents' experiences, this research describes the socio-cultural bonds, environmental benefits, and economic reliance between residents and their surrounding environment. This paper demonstrates that the GI provides valuable and yet substantially different ESS for residents of IS compared to how the concept is conventionally conceived in the global North. The paper argues for necessity of GI in IS as it provides environmental comfort, hazards mitigation, and economic support while having cultural values. Therefore, understanding their lifestyle, relationship with surrounding nature and sociocultural considerations is both effective and necessary in discussing GI in informal settlements.
英文关键词	Ecosystem services; Green infrastructure; Informal settlements; The global South
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Plant Sciences ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Forestry ; Urban Studies
WOS类目	Plant Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Forestry ; Urban Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001182551900001
来源期刊	URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/290782
作者单位	University College Dublin
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kamjou, Elgar,Scott, Mark,Lennon, Mick. A bottom-up perspective on green infrastructure in informal settlements: Understanding nature's benefits through lived experiences[J],2024,94.
APA	Kamjou, Elgar,Scott, Mark,&Lennon, Mick.(2024).A bottom-up perspective on green infrastructure in informal settlements: Understanding nature's benefits through lived experiences.URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING,94.
MLA	Kamjou, Elgar,et al."A bottom-up perspective on green infrastructure in informal settlements: Understanding nature's benefits through lived experiences".URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING 94(2024).