Authors:
John Garner
Publication Date:
2020
Abstract/Summary:
Millennial Cities is an interactive web mapping site that provides access to important maps, data, and web mapping applications related to climate change, social justice, the environment, and more. The purpose of including these free interactive tools on the website is to provide access to and promote the use of urban planning geospatial resources. These resources are intended to help citizens better understand their surroundings and make more informed decisions.
STAPER categories:
- A1: Assess degraded ecosystems
- A4: Assess the costs/benefits of ecosystem restoration
- A5: Assess institutional, policy, and legal frameworks & identify financial/technical resources
- A6: Identify options to reduce the drivers biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation
- B1: Review, improve or establish legal, policy and financial frameworks for restoration
- B2: Review, improve or establish a legal and policy framework for land tenure
- B3: Promote and strengthen formal and informal education systems
- B4: Review, improve or establish terrestrial and marine spatial planning processes
- B6: Review, improve or establish targets, policies and strategies for ecosystem restoration
- B9: Develop plans for resource mobilization
- B10: Promote and support capacity-building, training, and technology transfer
- C1: Identify appropriate measures for conducting ecosystem restoration
- C2: Consider how restoration can support sustainability of agriculture/production
- C3: Develop ecosystem restoration plans with clear/measurable objectives and goals
- C5: Implement the measures
- D1: Assess the efficacy and effects of implementing the ecosystem restoration plan
- D2: Adjust plans, expectations, procedures, and monitoring through adaptive management
- D3: Share lessons learned from planning, financing, implementing and monitoring ecosystem restoration plans
Resource Type:
Web-based Resource
Source:
Millennial Cities