The widespread popularization of nature-based solutions (NbS) is a testament to the body of knowledge built over decades to make the case for the effectiveness of built and natural landscapes – before the term “nature-based solutions” was even coined.
A landscape performance approach focuses on quantifying the benefits of landscape, but how can something as multifaceted and relatively subjective as exposure to nature be quantified? NatureScore™ and NatureDose™ represent a new, technology-based approach to evaluating nature exposure for human health and well-being.
Wildlife infrastructure exists as a framework of migration courses and habitation patterns that are inextricably linked to critical human infrastructure. At any given time, there are countless “rivers of wildlife” migrating locally and regionally above and within the world we know. In conjunction with increasingly fragile climatic conditions, urban development is drastically disrupting this framework. Wildlife is essentially pushed to the urban periphery, as increasing habitat fragmentation results in detrimental conditions for species migration.
If cities are to reflect the culture of the present day while also inspiring the future, then by and large, cities across America are lagging. All generations, not just the millennials and Gen Z, are growing more connected. Why, then, do our cities not yet reflect the same type of digital connectivity and embrace of technology and data that our culture does?
