Nature in the neighbourhood: rethinking the urban environment
by Amy Ihlan
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 17, No. 2, 2016

Abstract: Urban environmental thought should begin at the neighbourhood level. Conceiving urban neighbourhoods as environments requires thinking differently about neighbourhoods and their functions. An expanded concept of a neighbourhood environment recognises and encompasses urban nature, in a physical and a social sense, and creates conceptual and actual space for building connections between humans and non-humans in urban contexts. With appropriate support and encouragement, these connections can grow into relationships that motivate human neighbours to respect non-human nature in their neighbourhoods. This provides a possible starting point for the development of moral concern and the recognition of ethical obligation for the neighbourhood environment - the groundwork for a neighbourhood-centred urban environmental ethics.

Online publication date: Wed, 27-Apr-2016

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