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Stepping-Stone City: Process-Oriented Infrastructures to Aid Forest Migration in a Changing Climate

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Large-scale urbanisation has posed extreme challenges to the biota of the planet by creating non-permeable barriers to movement, especially in the context of global climate change. From a multi-scale perspective, this chapter discusses the importance of landscape connectivity in facilitating ecological processes and develops a conceptual framework of process-oriented green infrastructures. A study in the Greater Manchester area, UK is used to demonstrate the application of this framework to improve urban landscapes for climate-driven forest migration. The result reveals that the migration process at the metropolitan scale can be facilitated by a large number of stepping stones formed by small landscape interventions at site scales.

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    Qiyao Han & Greg Keeffe

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Han, Q., Keeffe, G. (2020). Stepping-Stone City: Process-Oriented Infrastructures to Aid Forest Migration in a Changing Climate. In: Roggema, R. (eds) Nature Driven Urbanism. Contemporary Urban Design Thinking. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26717-9_4

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