Journal de la biodiversité et des espèces menacées

Educational fieldworks towards urban biodiversity preservation: Case study of Japanese gardens management of Kanazawa city, Japan

Abstract

Aida Mammadova

Japanese gardens may be remember because the specific hubs to keep city biodiversity, as they offer the habitant for the numerous community of dwelling organism, facilitating to the motion of the uncommon species across the city landscape, have become the shelter for the moss and lots of endangered species. For the centuries, Japanese gardens had been taken into consideration as ecologically sustainable and properly prepared ecosystems, because of the professional maintenances and control. However, unluckily because of the depopulations and getting older in Japanese societies, gardens are getting greater abandoned, and there's an pressing want to boom the notice approximately the significance of the Japanese gardens to keep the city biodiversity.

Increasing biodiversity loss and fast urbanization are key substances of today’s international improvement pattern. At no different factor in global records has biodiversity been misplaced at such alarming rates, and neither have towns grown as large, and as quickly. Biodiversity and atmosphere offerings are the vital basis upon which humankind in the long run relies upon if you want to attain a higher fine of life. This is authentic for towns worldwide, wherein get entry to to nature is seldom adequate, whilst call for for herbal items and offerings to fulfill city life maintains to boom rapidly. Ascertaining the wonderful and terrible impacts among towns and biodiversity, and expertise the function that city nature performs in sustainability and well-being—each inside and past city boundaries—is a complicated endeavour, but a much-wished one in our time. It is widely stated that towns can make a contribution appreciably to biodiversity loss and degradation in an immediate way, through appropriating land for city improvement and converting herbal habitats (Mckinney, 2002; Sukopp, 2004; Whitford et al., 2001).

Urban improvement, characterised through a excessive percentage of impervious surfaces and a excessive ratio of constructed areas to inexperienced areas, can result in the extinction of local species and the alternative of local species with alien (non-local) species, specially alongside rural-city gradients (Mckinney, 2002; Zerbe et al., 2003). The Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI), which is evidenced through the temperature distinction among towns and their cooler surrounding environs, is an increasing number of diagnosed as a biophysical chance precise to towns which further exams city biodiversity (Landsberg, 1981; Foley, 2005; Shochat et al., 2006; Bradley and Altizer, 2007).

In this look at we've performed the participatory academic fieldtrips for 12 college students into 5 gardens included with the aid of using Kanazawa metropolis and found out approximately the renovation sports performed on the governmental, municipal, and nearby degrees. After the publications college students have observed a robust linkage among the gardens with the conventional culture. Kanazawa metropolis, for greater than four hundred years is well-known with conventional craft makings and tea ceremonies, and it changed into observed that the cultural variety of the metropolis changed into strongly supported with the aid of using the biodiversity of the gardens, and lack of the gardens could carry to the lack of the conventional culture. Using the experiential technique in the course of the fieldworks it changed into located with the aid of using the scholars that the linkage among the bio-cultural variety strongly relies upon on humans’ sports. The non-stop control and protection of the gardens are the contributing issue for the renovation of city variety. However, lawn control could be very time and capital eating process, and it changed into additionally observed that there's a huge want to draw all degrees of the society to keep the city biodiversity via the participatory urbanism.