Socio-Ecological Resilience for Urban Green Space Allocation

Abstract

The conceptualization of human-nature relationship in planning theory focuses only on political ecology and environmental ethics. This paper reviews the scholarly literature on the application of socio-ecological resilience in urban spatial planning and how it can reinforce ecological consideration in the demand allocation of urban green spaces as an alternative approach to the existing “standard approach” which based on population number. Based on literature review this paper reveals the importance of analyzing the dynamic interaction of socio-ecological systems (complex and adaptive) in spatial planning, especially in determining demand allocation of urban green spaces, not only able to address the challenges of “think planning again” especially in understanding the nature’s behavior in interacting with humans. This paper concludes with a discussion of how this demand might be provided and why it need to be optimized with the supply-side of urban green spaces.