Abstract
The unprecedented rate and scale of activities, simulated by human abode in its entirety, is having large and accelerating effects on the integrity of biophysical elements of spatial capital, at local, regional, and global scales. Real appreciation of these effects demands a dramatic change in human manipulation of the spatial capital. Spatial capital can be viewed as processes or a complex matrix, in which not only our spatial but social, economic, and intellectual needs are embedded. Through an extensive synthesis of literature, this study strives to situate as well as manage human abode in context of spatial capital. It focuses on the need of crafting spatial governance, which secures today’s needs without compromising the needs of abode for our future generations. For harmonious human engagement with the spatial capital, we focused on following major requisites: (i) filling gaps in the understanding of processes of the respective spatial capital; (ii) integration of this intellectual capital; (iii) and spatial government supported by seamless institutionalisation, and governance processes in a global context. All modes of human abode are unique when analysed in the milieu of their social, economic, cultural, and intellectual yield, and their respective ecological footprint on spatial capital. An essential component of the sustainability of spatial capital is fundamental knowledge of the relevant biophysical processes, which yield the respective social, economic, cultural, and intellectual services we obtain from it. Action-oriented and integrated intellectual capital will yield the required awareness about the spatial capital, which when crystallised into proper institutions their processes will certainly produce promising outcomes for spatial management. Sustainable spatial constructs can only be produced through horizontal and vertical harmonization in governance institutions from the local to global level. It will not only help in the rehabilitation of the spatial capital but can also enhance it.
Highlights
The immense variety of ecosystem services, on which human enterprise depends and has been acquiring from the entire natural capital, can be categorized into provisioning services, regulating services, cultural services, and supporting services [1]
The magnitude and scale of consumption of spatial goods and services is more apparent when we look at the urban manifestations like city, but it is usually ignored for urban forms in which human abodes are scattered
All modes of human abode are unique when analysed in the milieu of their social, economic, cultural, and intellectual yield, and their respective impact on the spatial capital
Summary
The immense variety of ecosystem services, on which human enterprise depends and has been acquiring from the entire natural capital, can be categorized into provisioning services (e.g., provision of food), regulating services (e.g., regulation of climate), cultural services (e.g., spiritual and aesthetic values), and supporting services (e.g., soil formation) [1] All of these services make this planet livable, but enrich human life with aesthetic pleasure and spiritual inspiration [1,2]. The unprecedented rate and magnitude of recent and projected changes is going to have large and accelerating effects on the climate, environment, and ecosystems of the Earth, thereby degrading many ecosystem services at local, regional, and global scales [5,8] Real appreciation of these changes in their totality, magnitude, and implications demands a dramatic change in human relationships with the environment and life-support systems of the planet [8,9]. Humanity’s dominance of Earth needs to be crystallised into an active management of the planet for the foreseeable future [3]: a management which secures today’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs [10]
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