Abstract
In order to understand the complexities and trends that influence a city’s biodiversity health and ecosystem services, a holistic assessment is an essential tool to capture its growth trajectory towards sustainability. The City Biodiversity Index (CBI) is one such tool that allows the evaluation of city-specific sustainable governance, local biodiversity management and their socio-ecological characteristics through an indicator-based monitoring system. In this chapter, we discuss the application of the CBI in order to address the population surge and booming industrialization within the smart city of Faridabad. Rapid decline in urban blue and green spaces was observed during the study which calls for immediate action and proper management plan by the local bodies. CBI can also act as a tool for impact assessment of various policies and ventures by the stakeholders along with providing a common ground for strategical exchange amongst cities with similar social and ecological characteristics and urban concerns. Further, suggestions and recommendations are made such as implementation of nature-based solutions (NbS) and ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) techniques for new policies to be formulated by policymakers and stakeholders and to address the limitations of the CBI as observed during study for better biodiversity conservation in the city.
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Das, C., Shukla, J., Dhyani, S. (2022). Endorsing City Biodiversity Index (CBI): Assessing Ecosystem Health in Urban Sprawls and Eco-DRR-Inclusive Urban Planning. In: Dhyani, S., Basu, M., Santhanam, H., Dasgupta, R. (eds) Blue-Green Infrastructure Across Asian Countries. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7128-9_20
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