Informal Urban Biodiversity in the Milan Metropolitan Area: The Role of Spontaneous Nature in the Leftover Regeneration Process DOI Creative Commons
Lucia Ludovici, Maria Chiara Pastore

Land, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(8), P. 1123 - 1123

Published: July 24, 2024

The present study reflects on spontaneous nature’s agency to reclaim abandoned urban areas in Italian brownfields, providing a focused analysis of the Metropolitan Area Milan. These spaces are products phenomena, such as deindustrialization, demilitarization, and uncontrolled expansion, which have produced compromised heritage challenges regeneration. Such abandonment sometimes produces new forms nature, suggests possible path for ecological regeneration coexistence, affirmed by multidisciplinary literature. related informal biodiversity grows regardless future planning provisions, triggering unexpected transformations environment producing socio-ecological value, demonstrated citizens’ recognition these places. maps Milan territory, identifying presence large contaminated sites, relevant voids, vacant lots, former agricultural spaces. This also paths policies integrate within structure analyzing main features corresponding processes.

Language: Английский

Solution to what? Global assessment of nature-based solutions, urban challenges, and outcomes DOI Creative Commons
M. Li, Roy P. Remme, Peter M. van Bodegom

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Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 256, P. 105294 - 105294

Published: Jan. 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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Multiple ecosystem services of informal green spaces: A literature review DOI Creative Commons
Sitong Luo, Agnès Patuano

Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 81, P. 127849 - 127849

Published: Feb. 2, 2023

Informal green spaces (IGS) such as overgrown vacant lots and urban brownfields constitute a considerable amount of resources in the city. Given that increasingly competitive land use area, enhancing potential ecosystem services (ES) IGS through design management practices is critical importance. This literature review paper provides an overview ES delivered by IGS: What types have been discussed? Which identified IGS, what interrelationships among different identified, how can be enhanced practices? 112 scientific papers were analyzed for their 1) terms applied, 2) studied, 3) current or discussed, 4) trade-offs, 5) assessment methods. Through review, we found although most studies did not consider synergies trade-offs. The few assessing trade-offs mostly focused on large-scale rather than small-scale lands/lots. highlights two knowledge gaps future research: first one to explore integrate multiple based synergies; second develop spatial synergies, which key envision interventions optimize benefits IGS. promotes acknowledgement term highlighting value provisioning further outlines research directions lands/lots patches spontaneous vegetation.

Language: Английский

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Contribution of non-park green space to the equity of urban green space accessibility DOI Creative Commons
Xinli Ke,

Dengying Huang,

Ting Zhou

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Ecological Indicators, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 146, P. 109855 - 109855

Published: Jan. 5, 2023

Urban green space (UGS) plays a critical role in promoting sustainable development of urban ecology and improving inhabitants' well-beings. Equal access to UGS is vital for enjoying the benefits UGS. However, those non-park (NPGS) that more closely related residence are often ignored when investigating equity accessibility. In this study, two scenarios with or without considering NPGS were set up reveal contribution This study was conducted at block scale Wuhan, megacity central China. Results indicate accessibility equally distributed compared NGPS 79.32%. The Gini coefficients scenario higher (0.93) while lower one other (0.62). Lorenz curve an improvement after NPGS. highlights importance particularly meaningful megacities where scarce obviously unequal may occur.

Language: Английский

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Beyond Cleansing: Ecosystem Services Related to Phytoremediation DOI Creative Commons
Werther Guidi Nissim, Stefano Castiglione, Francesco Guarino

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Plants, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12(5), P. 1031 - 1031

Published: Feb. 24, 2023

Phytotechnologies used for cleaning up urban and suburban polluted soils (i.e., brownfields) have shown some weakness in the excessive extent of timeframe required them to be effectively operating. This bottleneck is due technical constraints, mainly related both nature pollutant itself (e.g., low bio-availability, high recalcitrance, etc.) plant pollution tolerance, uptake rates, etc.). Despite great efforts made last few decades overcome these limitations, technology many cases barely competitive compared with conventional remediation techniques. Here, we propose a new outlook on phytoremediation, where main goal decontaminating should re-evaluated, considering additional ecosystem services (ESs) establishment vegetation cover site. The aim this review raise awareness stress knowledge gap importance ES associated technique, which can make phytoremediation valuable tool boost an actual green transition process planning spaces, thereby offering improved resilience global climate change higher quality life cities. highlights that reclamation brownfields through may provide several regulating hydrology, heat mitigation, noise reduction, biodiversity, CO2 sequestration), provisional bioenergy added-value chemicals), cultural aesthetic, social cohesion, health) ESs. Although future research specifically addressed better support findings, acknowledging crucial exhaustive evaluation as sustainable resilient technology.

Language: Английский

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Rethinking urban green spaces for urban resilience. Do green spaces need adaptation to meet public post-covid expectations? DOI
Daria Sikorska, Magdalena Wojnowska-Heciak, Jakub Heciak

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Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 80, P. 127838 - 127838

Published: Jan. 11, 2023

Language: Английский

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Beyond urban parks: Mapping informal green spaces in an urban–peri-urban gradient DOI Creative Commons
Magdalena Biernacka, Jakub Kronenberg, Edyta Łaszkiewicz

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Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 131, P. 106746 - 106746

Published: May 27, 2023

Urban green space (UGS) is a broad and potentially very inclusive term. Although most discussions on UGS focus urban parks, there are many other vegetated areas in cities. Many not formally recognised protected, hence they called informal spaces (IGS), yet provide ecosystem services similar to parks. Based detailed overview of the different categories UGS, we shed new light how included planning snapshot disturbing land use transition – from uses which partly related lack formal recognition IGS. The novelty our study that mapped analysed all case area, following two rivers cut through Lodz (Łódź), Poland one peri-urban area (partly rural), city centre, side city. structures gradient buildings studied coincide with for whole Lodz; therefore, research representative part its heterogeneity. Out seventeen distinguished, only six account 24% covered by UGS. Only 7% identified as designated types according local zoning plans. analysis highlights broader challenges management blue infrastructures.

Language: Английский

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Adaptive green space management strategies for sustainable carbon sink parks DOI Creative Commons

Taehyeon Moon,

Min Gyu Kim, Jinhyung Chon

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Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 94, P. 128236 - 128236

Published: Feb. 13, 2024

Green spaces, such as urban parks, function carbon absorption strategies for the attainment of neutrality. However, parks are at risk losing their based on changes in flux dynamics due to climate change. Therefore, this study proposes an adaptive green space management strategy establishing a sustainable sink park by analyzing parks. To end, first, system model was developed analyze city Second, 10 programs were established enable park. After evaluating effects program, third, three scenarios built according pursued values (ecological, social, economic). As result dynamics, annual net uptake has continuously decreased since 2030 s. The amount decrease rate photosynthesis, increase pests, and mortality. result, lawn area decreases, increases broad-leaf trees, decreases strength most effective increasing following order. In addition, ecological scenario reported have highest cumulative among scenarios. all could not prevent fromlosing function. These results presented flexibility how change threatened sustainability According study, program should be modified sequestration without degrading other functions A further will conducted expand program.

Language: Английский

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TEN QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE ROLE OF URBAN GREENERY IN SHAPING THE FUTURE OF URBAN AREAS DOI Creative Commons
Rengin Aslanoğlu, Jan K. Kazak, Szymon Szewrański

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Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 112154 - 112154

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Would you walk here? Urban wildscapes as visual settings for utility and recreational walks DOI Creative Commons
Edyta Łaszkiewicz, Piotr Sikorski, Piotr Archiciński

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Cities, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 158, P. 105704 - 105704

Published: Jan. 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Sustainable urban development based on an adaptive cycle model: A coupled social and ecological land use development model DOI Creative Commons
Zeqi Wang, Lin Li, Bingcheng Zhang

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Ecological Indicators, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 154, P. 110666 - 110666

Published: July 24, 2023

With the emphasis of modern societal development on ecological environment, urban environmental issues have been lessened. However, green space occupies a significant amount land resources, leading to more prominent human-land conflicts in some areas, thus creating serious social that urgently require solutions. As result, and factors must be integrated into sustainability planning. Using Chinese city Fuzhou as an example, this study constructed adaptive cycle model framework for sustainable based theory by coordinating three core characteristic attributes development: potential (urban potential), connectedness (conflicting use), resilience (suitability development). This was used identify stages (exploitation, conservation, release, reorganization) different areas city. Finally, value landscape created verified through multi-scenario simulation. The results were follows: 1) expansion under constraints had higher could effectively mitigate use while balancing socio-ecological contradictions during development; 2) effects varied across 3) our proposed planning pathway divided eight categories targeted measures zoning characteristics. can alleviate contradiction between development. It policy tool managing assessment future use.

Language: Английский

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