residents

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(extended) urban ecology
planning process (ordinary nature a challenge)

• residents view on urban environment
• anthropocentric
• biocentric intrinsic value of biodiversity

good life for residents
??

• experts view on urban environment
• anthropocentric
• biocentric intrinsic value of biodiversity

goal no biodiversity loss in Helsinki
good life for biodiversity (ordinary nature
protected areas)
??
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(extended) urban ecology Urban ecology is wise
management of the way in which we use and develop
our cities and towns. Urban ecology focuses on
the current environmental conditions.... The
Danish Centre for Urban Ecology.
theory human ecosystem models monitoring
adaptive management language communication
between scientists and other stakeholders
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Adaptive management
goals planning
stakeholders
action (implementation)
science
monitoring
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Step 1 What is biological monitoring?
Biological (ecological or biodiversity)
monitoring is the repeated inventorying of
organisms over time and space to determine
environmental quality
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Step 2 Before monitoring, define

• purpose and aim
• methods and indicators
• analyses
• biological interpretation
• links to decision making

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Step 4 Indicators of change
Biological (ecological or biodiversity)
monitoring is the repeated inventorying of
organisms over time and space to determine
environmental quality which variables to use as
indicators?
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Monitoring, ecological communication and decision
making (Norton 1998)

• ecologists are reluctant to mix values issues
  with scientific study ...
• ecologists are slow to pick up on signals flowing
  from policy discourse to ecological science ...
• ecologists often fail to study nature at a scale
  that would provide guidance to decision makers ...

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Good ecological communication (Norton 1998)

• uses adaptive management approach
• has perspective and is place-based
• is multiscaled (space around the place)
• is operationalizable (measurable indic.)
• expresses normative content
• enhances communication