MainDBDraft: A Thematic Atlas of Nature's Benefits to Dar es Salaam
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A Thematic Atlas of Nature's Benefits to Dar es Salaam
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Africa
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22/07/2020
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https://interactbio.iclei.org/resource/a-thematic-atlas-of-natures-benefits-to-dar-es-salaam/
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ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability
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Local
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Adaptation planning and practices; Capacity building
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Agriculture; Biodiversity; Ecosystem-based adaptation; Ecosystems; Food security; Health; Human settlements; Tourism; Urban resilience; Water resources
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Extreme heat; Floods; Land and forest degradation; Loss of biodiversity
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Please refer to the Atlas document to see the full list of partners involved in the development of the Thematic Atlas. The iplementing partners is the City of Dar es Salaam.
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Tanzania
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Karutz R., Berghöfer A., Moore L.R., and van Wyk, E. (2019). A Thematic Atlas of Nature’s Benefits to Dar es Salaam. Leipzig and Cape Town: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and ICLEI Africa Secretariat. 78 pages. Available online: https://cbc.iclei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Atlas_DSM_2019-10-11_final_DIGITAL_med-res.pdf
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Technical document/report
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Background and purpose City officials in Dar es Salaam expressed a need to prioritise their annual municipal investment in city greening. Consequently, the conceptual basis of ‘A Thematic Atlas of Nature’s Benefits to Dar es Salaam’ is ecosystem services thinking, which highlights the societal and economic benefits of green open space and vegetated areas in urban and peri-urban contexts. Each of seven ‘themes’ in The Atlas represents an urban challenge, such as rising urban heat or flooding. Spatial data, including geo-referenced imagery and vector shapefiles, were used to link the spatial location of issues with the spatial location of existing green spaces and the ecosystem services provided by those green open spaces. Together, these aspects provided a logical and spatially explicit basis for prioritising the city’s investment in green open space. For example, a city may choose to plant large numbers of trees where areas of extreme urban heat overlap with areas of high air pollution; for example around bus terminals. With this approach, the City can build a defensible rationale for the spatial selection of sites for greening investments for the achievement of outcomes that relate to societal well-being, protected and enhanced economies and the reduction of urban risks such as heat islands. The Atlas also represents an approach that can be developed without perfect or complete information and data, and may therefore have wide applicability to cities experiencing resource constraints similar to those exhibited by Dar es Salaam. Process The Atlas methodology was co-created with Dar es Salaam City Council, its five municipalities and a wide range of non-municipal stakeholders and contributors, including NGOs and universities (see Karutz et al 2019). The need for the Atlas was affirmed with stakeholders and the potential themes were discussed. Following agreement on themes, draft maps and text were developed for each theme. Stakeholders were invited to validate draft maps and text, in a workshop setting before the product was finalised.
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When the Atlas was in the final stages of development, the project team asked the Dar es Salaam City Council and municipal representatives about the anticipated usefulness of the product. They indicated that it would be useful as a green space planning tool, to prioritise green space investment based on achieving multiple benefits in specified spatial locations. They envisaged that it would also support the development of action plans. City officials pointed out though that it would be important to incorporate the Atlas into the City Strategic Plan in order to ensure funding allocation to greening initiatives. The Dar es Salaam City Council used the city heat map from the Atlas in their presentations at different platforms to illustrate city issues within a climate change context, showing the influence of the maps beyond the Atlas. Once the Atlas was launched, further needs were expressed. The City and five municipalities indicated that the education sector would benefit from a series of adaptations of the Atlas chapters for educational purposes and to change school curricula to accommodate ideas on urban nature and nature-based solutions. Another emergent need was expressed by various stakeholders to establish a cross-sectoral forum to discuss and coordinate greening efforts in the City as several agencies (notably the local road and rapid transit agency, and local nurseries) play a role in city greening. The Atlas was used to identify priority sites for practical demonstration projects to be implemented as part of the INTERACT-Bio project. Finally, recommendations from the Thematic Atlas led to the project allocating funds to developing a biodiversity catalogue for Dar es Salaam to showcase Dar es Salaam’s indigenous nature and to support awareness of its usefulness in the City.
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