Perspectives on Urban Greenspace: Progress, Failures and Ways Ahead

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Volume 51 – Number 4

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This issue provides insights into recent advances and persisting challenges in urban greening, framed as green infrastructure (GI) or nature-based solutions (NbS), while identifying future priorities in light of global urbanization trends. Contributions from Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe, alongside a global review, provide a deliberately international scope, thereby enabling comparison of shared challenges and locally specific responses.

STEPHAN PAULEIT, EMANUEL GIANNOTTI, MARTINA VAN LIEROP and RIEKE HANSEN

24 Nov 2025

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• Perspectives on Urban Greenspace: Progress, Failures and Ways Ahead
  STEPHAN PAULEIT, EMANUEL GIANNOTTI, RIEKE HANSEN and MARTINA VAN LIEROP
   
• Is the Grass Always Greener? A Retrospective Analysis of Green Infrastructure Planning Post-1994
  IAN MELL
   
• Towards Greener Cities in Latin America: The Role of Policies in Shaping Urban Vegetation Dynamics
  ALEXIS VÁSQUEZ, EMANUEL GIANNOTTI, ELIZABETH GALDÁMEZ, CYNNAMON DOBBS, JUAN DAVID AMAYA-ESPINEL, TAÍCIA MARQUES, and PABLA LOZANO RAMÍREZ
   
• Finding Recourse for Public Sector Urban Green Infrastructure Uptake in the City of Tshwane and Beyond
  TANIA DU PLESSIS and CHRISTINA BREED
   
• Moving NbS from Concept to Action in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strategic Pathways for Scaling Implementation
  KIRK B. ENU and STEPHAN PAULEIT
   
• Urban Nature Plans: Strategic Tool for Integrated Biodiversity and Climate Planning in German Cities
  RIEKE HANSEN, LENA ENDERICH and MCKENNA DAVIS
   
• Climate Resilient Green Cities of the Future: Building Evidence for Action
  STEPHAN PAULEIT, SABRINA ERLWEIN, SANDRA FEDER, SIMONE LINKE and TERESA ZÖLCH

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