The Role of Green Infrastructure in Providing Urban Ecosystem Services: Insights from a Bibliometric Perspective

Land, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(10), P. 1664 - 1664

Published: Oct. 12, 2024

Urban ecosystems, and the services they provide, are a key focus of United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, specifically SDG 11, which emphasizes making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, sustainable. Green infrastructure (GI) is crucial in enhancing citizens’ quality life achieving this goal it can be defined as strategically planned network natural semi-natural areas designed to deliver range ecosystem (ESs). These infrastructures improve functioning, protect biodiversity, promote health, support sustainable land water management, boost local green economy. This paper explores scientific literature on GI their ESs using bibliometric science. By combining keywords “Green Infrastructures”, “Ecosystem Services”, “Cities” with VOSviewer software (1.6.20 version), we analyzed trends over time. Results show growing attention these topics, emphasizing human well-being, urban resilience, sustainability. The study also highlights that focusing exclusively either Infrastructure Cities” or Services leads fragmented insights. A more integrated examination three domains offers holistic view underscores importance considering disservices. further identifies research directions, including need comprehensive evaluation diverse types, especially those under-researched, such roofs, sports areas, wetlands, underexplored role cultural services. Additionally, future should consider both benefits disservices better planning decisions. Finally, integrating biophysical, social, economic values critical providing insights development. novelty lies its integrated, approach examining disservices, insufficient specific services—each contributing creation resilient cities.

Language: Английский

Boxes of rain: A systematic review on the classes and frameworks of ecosystem disservices

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 13, 2025

Abstract Despite the numerous benefits we derive from ecosystems as ecosystem services (ES), negative impacts on human health and well-being also occur disservices (ED). To study ED, researchers box them into classes create conceptual frameworks to support their identification, assessment, communication. It is unclear what now exist for relative uptake in literature, potential application across socio-ecological contexts. We conduct a systematic literature review of ED classification systems take stock synthesize this growing but scattered body research. find strong several influential articles persisting inconsistency classifications oversimplification processes within frameworks. Aggregating existing frameworks, draw lessons learned propose Composite Ecosystem Disservices (CED) framework. call increased research, greater comparability replicability allowing transdisciplinarity, underpinnings that recognize social-ecological interconnections.

Language: Английский

Time, justice, and urban nature: procedural barriers to multi-species flourishing

npj Urban Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: April 25, 2025

Language: Английский