ABSTRACT
Urbanization, landscape fragmentation, and the intensification of agricultural practices are responsible for the significant loss of biodiversity in the Paris Region. In the meantime, the magnitude and frequency of climate change increasingly threatens biodiversity and human livelihoods. These challenges are interconnected and need to be addressed together in the future of urban planning and urban ecology. Protecting and reclaiming ecosystems inside and outside urban areas through nature-based solutions is one of the most relevant contemporary approaches to adapt to changing climate conditions and increase biodiversity. A review of local planning and design reveal the potential opportunities created by these solutions, but the Paris Region still has to coordinate these often very local projects more effectively to make a “Nature City-Region” framework more consistently aligned with urban ecological science.
