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Re-framing urban green spaces planning for flood protection through socio-
ecological resilience in Bandung City, Indonesia
Dian Afriyanie
a,
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, Miga M. Julian
b,c
, Akhmad Riqqi
b
, Roos Akbar
d
, Djoko S.A. Suroso
d
,
Iwan Kustiwan
d
a
Doctoral Program in Regional and City Planning, School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia
b
Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Bandung, Indonesia
c
Geographic Information Science, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (FSU-Jena), Jena, Germany
d
Department of Regional and City Planning, School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia
ARTICLE INFO
Keywords:
Urban green spaces
Spatial planning
Socio-ecological resilience
Flood protection
Ecosystem services
ABSTRACT
An increasing number of studies use the advantages of the ecosystem services (ES) framework compared to the
standard approach for identifying priority locations for urban green spaces. Few of these studies discuss the
disparities between supply and demand of ES, which are dependent on spatial relationships and even fewer
reveal the impact of land use zoning on disparities in ES. We advance the ES framework by examining the
equitable distribution and resilient supply of flood protection of urban green spaces in Bandung City. To illus-
trate supply, we used land cover-based methods to produce flood protection benefits whereas we used the IPCC
Risk Framework to generate flood risk for indicating demand. This study found that the distribution of urban
green spaces is not equitably distributed and green space locations do not offer resilient supply of flood pro-
tection. Moreover, Bandung's existing zoning regulations will exacerbate these problems in the future. This paper
provides insights into the considerations for determining spatial priorities in planning urban green spaces
especially for flood protection and co-leverage of flood adaptation and mitigation measures. Furthermore, the
paper demonstrates how to re-frame urban green spaces planning through socio-ecological resilience to inform
the decision-making process in delivering inclusive urban ES.
1. Introduction
The increasing conversion of urban green spaces puts more pressure
on the structure and function of urban ecosystems. These pressures, in
turn, affect the production of urban ecosystem services. Land use
changes in urban areas are mostly driven by an increase in the demand
for land for community and economic activities. This will ultimately
reduce the carrying capacity of urban ecosystems. Understanding this
trend is therefore critical in managing and planning urban green spaces,
as a deteriorating quantity and quality of urban green spaces will affect
their ability to benefit human well-being (Afriyanie, Akbar, & Suroso,
2018; Li, Wang, Paulussen, & Liu, 2005; Niemela, 2014; Tzoulas et al.,
2007).
Since the early twentieth century, planning and determining the size
and location of urban green spaces has followed the standard approach
of setting minimum allocation standards (Olsson, 2012). However,
Byrne and Sipe (2010) argue that many local governments have failed
to apply these standards because of development pressures. Ultimately,
this leads to the failure of cities to provide quality urban green spaces
for their urban population. Most Indonesian city governments have
failed to meet the required minimum 30% ratio of urban green spaces to
total municipality area as mandated by Law No. 32/2009 regarding
Protection and Management of the Environment (Afriyanie et al.,
2018), not to mention their failure in ensuring its quality. A “needs-
based assessment” is an alternative approach in providing urban green
spaces, especially parks and open spaces (Byrne & Sipe, 2010). This
approach takes into consideration the socio-demographic and biophy-
sical characteristics of an area - something the standard approach tends
to overlook. However, Afriyanie et al. (2018) argued that the needs-
based assessment may neglect the sustainability of urban ecosystems,
since its main concern is the preferences and demand of urban popu-
lations for green spaces and parks, instead of balancing such demands
with urban ecosystem sustainability.
In planning theory, it is arguably minimal attention to the ecological
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102710
Received 19 May 2019; Received in revised form 12 February 2020; Accepted 20 March 2020
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Corresponding author at: Department of Regional and City Planning, School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB),
Indonesia, Jalan Ganesha No. 10, Bandung, Indonesia.
E-mail address: dian.afriyanie@gmail.com (D. Afriyanie).
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