Green Zones from Above and Below: A Retrospective and Cautionary Tale

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This contribution builds upon earlier work on the concept of biophilia while synthesizing literatures on restorative environments, community-based ecological restoration, and both community and social-ecological disaster resilience. It suggests that when humans, faced with a disaster, as individuals and as communities and populations, seek engagement with nature to further their efforts to summon and demonstrate resilience in the face of a crisis, they exemplify an urgent biophilia. This urgent biophilia represents an important set of human-nature interactions in social-ecological systems characterized by hazard, disaster, or vulnerability, often appearing in the ‘backloop’ of the adaptive cycle. The relationships that human-nature interactions have to other components within interdependent systems at many different scales may be one critical source of resilience in disaster and related contexts. In other words, the affinity we humans have for the rest of nature, the process of remembering that attraction, and the urge to express it through creation of restorative environments, which may also restore or increase ecological function, may confer resilience across multiple scales.

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Geisler, C. (2014). Green Zones from Above and Below: A Retrospective and Cautionary Tale. In Greening in the Red Zone (pp. 203–213). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9947-1_16

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