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Integrating Nonhuman Species' Voices in Biodiversity-inclusive Urban Planning : Opportunities for Tackling Challenges

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VenueUPM Digital Archive (Technical University of Madrid) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicUrban Planning and Landscape Design
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUrban planningCivil societyMultidisciplinary approachLegislatureGovernment (linguistics)Leverage (statistics)DisadvantagedBiodiversityValue (mathematics)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Cities play a vital role in tackling the biodiversity crisis, acknowledged through global and local commitments. Success relies on innovative urban planning and design. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework promotes biodiversity-inclusive planning and design (BIPD), positioning biodiversity as nonhuman stakeholders in decision-making. Nonetheless, current BIPD efforts have notable shortcomings, often emphasizing large cities in the Global North while overlooking vulnerable communities in the Global South. Government initiatives alone cannot reverse biodiversity loss; active participation from public, private, and civil society sectors is essential. Additionally, divides between disciplines hinder urban professionalssuch as planners and architectsfrom effectively implementing biodiversity-inclusive practices in urban ecology. My thesis aims to understand challenges and identify opportunities for BIPD that incorporate nonhuman species' voices in urban planning. I examine involving nonhuman species in urban practices to raise awareness and develop tools for biodiversity-inclusive transformations. This engagement includes diverse stakeholders across the Global North and South, focusing on nonhuman inhabitants and supporting disadvantaged communities. The research employs various methods and is divided into three chapters. Project 1: This study employs Q-Methodology to analyze BEPs perspectives from Ethiopia, China, Spain, and the U.S., identifying four views: Pluralist, Enthusiast, Pragmatist, and Contextualist. Challenges include BEPs' lack of biodiversity data awareness, structural barriers, and misaligned values. Our research indicates that not all challenges are equally difficult. BEPs exhibit readiness to transcend legislative structural barriers and leverage professional norms to advocate for urban biodiversity, particularly when equipped with evidence-based tools. Pluralists and Enthusiasts demonstrate heightened interest in multidisciplinary collaboration and prescriptive, visual tools to communicate biodiversitys value to stakeholders. Project 2: The planning and management of BIPD projects is key to global conservation. Building consensus based on environmental ethics is crucial for the success of these projects. This study refines the ecocentric-anthropocentric attitude scale with biophilia tendencies to evaluate environmental attitudes and applies it to stakeholders in Zhangjiagang Bay Eco-Park, a BIPD project in China recognized in the UNs SDGs Good Practice list. The paper reveals diverse stakeholder value patterns and proposes new measures for sustainable projects. The authors demonstrate that the adapted scale aligns with environmental philosophy theories, showing strong reliability and explanatory power for effective project management. Project 3: Research is needed to thoroughly investigate how interdisciplinary collaborations impact silos between UE and UPD. This study reassesses research publications in both fields, analyzing their interconnections using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. We evaluate discursive similarities and differences, revealing the evolving role of interdisciplinary collaboration. Importantly, we uncover cross-disciplinary themes, exploring how collaborative research can promote biodiversity-inclusive transformative change in urban environments. This research identifies opportunities for BIPD through inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations. BEPs show enthusiasm for biodiversity innovation and willingness to address diverse norms and values. Aligning environmental values is crucial for success. Collaborations enhance urban ecology and planning, particularly in spatial modeling and health-related ecosystem services. This study uniquely examines nonhuman species as stakeholders in the Global North and South, emphasizing BEPs pivotal role, the need for inclusive stakeholder engagement, and collaborative knowledge production in urban sustainability. RESUMEN Las ciudades juegan un papel vital en la lucha contra la crisis de biodiversidad, reconocido en compromisos globales y locales. El éxito depende de una planificación y diseño urbano innovadores. El Marco Global de Biodiversidad Kunming-Montreal promueve la planificación inclusiva de biodiversidad (BIPD), representando especies no humanas en la toma de decisiones. Pero la BIPD presenta deficiencias, centrada en ciudades del Norte Global mientras ignora comunidades vulnerables del Sur. Las iniciativas gubernamentales no revierten la pérdida de biodiversidad; la participación de los sectores público, privado y de la sociedad civil es esencial. Las divisiones entre disciplinas impiden a profesionales urbanoscomo planificadores y arquitectosimplementar prácticas de biodiversidad en la ecología urbana. Se estudian desafíos e identifican oportunidades para que la BIPD incorpore las especies no humanas en la planificación urbana. Examino esta incorporación para crear conciencia y desarrollar herramientas para transformaciones pro-biodiversidad. Este compromiso incluye partes interesadas en el Norte y Sur Global, centrándose en especies no humanas y apoyando a comunidades desfavorecidas. La investigación se divide en tres capítulos. Proyecto 1: Perspectivas de los BEPs en la BIPD Se analizan con el Método Q las perspectivas de BEPs de Etiopía, China, España y EE. UU., identificando cuatro puntos de vista: Pluralista, Entusiasta, Pragmatista y Contextualista. Los retos incluyen falta de conciencia sobre biodiversidad, barreras estructurales y valores desalineados. Los BEPs están dispuestos a superar barreras legislativas estructurales y aprovechar normas profesionales para defender la biodiversidad urbana, si disponen de herramientas contrastadas. Los Pluralistas y Entusiastas prefieren la colaboración multidisciplinar y las herramientas visuales prescriptivas para comunicar el valor de la biodiversidad a los implicados.. Proyecto 2: Actitudes Ambientales de los Participantes en un Estudio de Caso de BIPD La BIPD es clave para la conservación global. El consenso basado en ética ambiental es crucial para el éxito de estos proyectos. Se refina la escala de actitud ecocéntrica-antropocéntrica con tendencias de biofilia para evaluar actitudes ambientales y se aplica a las partes interesadas en el Eco-Parque de Zhangjiagang Bay, un proyecto de BIPD en China con Buenas Prácticas de los ODS de la ONU. Se revelan patrones de valor diversos entre las partes interesadas y se proponen nuevas medidas para proyectos sostenibles. La escala adaptada se alinea con la filosofía ambiental, mostrando fiabilidad y poder explicativo para la gestión de proyectos. Proyecto 3: Impacto de Colaboraciones Interdisciplinarias en los Silos Disciplinarios entre UE y UPD Se investigan las colaboraciones interdisciplinarias entre la ecología urbana y la planificación. Se reevalúan las publicaciones de investigación en ambos campos y sus interconexiones usando procesamiento de lenguaje natural (PLN) y aprendizaje automático. Evaluamos similitudes y diferencias discursivas, revelando el papel evolutivo de la colaboración interdisciplinaria. Se han descubierto temas transdisciplinarios, explorando cómo la investigación colaborativa promueve la biodiversidad en entornos urbanos. Se identifican oportunidades para la BIPD a través de colaboraciones inter- y transdisciplinarias. Los BEPs muestran entusiasmo por la innovación en biodiversidad y disposición favorable. Los valores ambientales son cruciales para el éxito. Las colaboraciones mejoran la ecología urbana y la planificación, particularmente en modelado espacial y servicios ecosistémicos de salud. Este estudio examina las especies no humanas como partes interesadas en el Norte y Sur Global, enfatizando el papel fundamental de los BEPs, la necesidad de compromiso inclusivo de las partes interesadas y la producción colaborativa de conocimiento para armonizar prioridades ecológicas y humanas en sostenibilidad urbana.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.649
Threshold uncertainty score0.737

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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