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Green-Blue Spaces in Yoruba Cities – Ecosystem Services Ethnography

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Ecological Urbanism of Yoruba Cities in Nigeria

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Ecological urbanism combines the principles of ecology and city design to pursue urban environmental quality for human wellbeing. It sits at the intersection of ecosystem services (ES) of urban green and blue spaces (UGBS). Ecological urbanism combines all material and metaphysical elements of nature for the wellbeing of city dwellers. This chapter presents results of the assessment of ES of specific UGBS in selected Yoruba cities using the socio-cultural ecological conceptual framework developed in Chap. 1. The conceptual framework links ecological urbanism, ecosystems, green infrastructure, ecosystem services, indigenous knowledge system, and Yoruba cities together. The assessment takes care of theoretical underpinnings linking green infrastructure and ecosystem services, philosophical considerations for studying ecosystem services, contextualization of the concepts, and ecosystem components of United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals. The assessment results are presented as metanarratives of the ES of specific UGBS in selected Yoruba cities. Yoruba cities are precolonial urban spaces with unique ES of UGBS. The aim of this chapter is to underscore the intricate ecological connections of these spaces to the everyday life of the citizens and their understandings of urban natural processes through indigenous knowledge system and local wisdom. This is in view of the constantly emerging and evolving urban biogeophysical crisis. To achieve this, Osun Grove UNESCO World Heritage Site in Osogbo was selected as archetype that represents the divinatory cosmology and pre-colonial city planning in Yoruba land. Its ES reveal a belief-system in the river and medicinal plants that is rooted in a mind-body connection with the spirit world of the goddess and Yoruba pantheon in general. The Grove demonstrates the traditional spirituality and religiosity of Yoruba people. Typical of the Grove, other green spaces like Biological Garden and Park in Akure, Lekki Conservation Centre in Lagos, Fajuyi Park Ado-Ekiti, and three University parks and gardens, are sites of provisioning, supporting, regulating, and cultural ES. The urban ecotourism values of some of the sites contribute to human wellbeing aside from being part of nature-based solution to the environmental and economic sustainabilities of the cities. As sites of social capital, memorials, metabolic and aesthetic appreciations of nature, they nurture symbiotic relationships between human and nonhuman natures that are reminiscent of Garden of Eden. The chapter concludes with a section on the Lagos lagoon and its associated University of Lagos Park as a unique urban ecosystem. It offers recommendations on the strategies for sustaining the ES of the ecological urban spaces. The next chapter of the book discusses the diverse ways Yoruba people relate with Green Environment to access their ES for human wellbeing and the mechanisms that frame these services.

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Adedeji, J.A. (2023). Green-Blue Spaces in Yoruba Cities – Ecosystem Services Ethnography. In: Ecological Urbanism of Yoruba Cities in Nigeria . Cities and Nature. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34688-0_2

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