A multiple scale, function, and type approach to determine and improve Green Infrastructure of urban watersheds

Arthur, Nils; Hack, Jochen

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127459

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“…This involves both verifying the respondence of the proposed local strategies to supra-local planning objectives and guidelines, and promoting the cooperation among different levels of governance as an application of the subsidiarity principle between the various planning scales [49,50]. In response to such issues, the multi-scale design of a GI combines objectives, spatial design, regulations and tangible solutions that should intertwine and find mutual correspondences to build environmental strategies [51][52][53]. In turn, strategies should help translate ES-based GIs into feasible land use planning tools and regulations [25,54].…”

Section: Connectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

An Operational Model to Downscale Regional Green Infrastructures in Supra-Local Plans: A Case Study in an Italian Alpine Sub-Region

Pristeri,

di Martino,

Ronchi

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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In recent years, green infrastructure (GI) has increasingly become a strategic tool to integrate ecosystem services in spatial planning at different scales. GI has the potential to foster the achievement of environmental targets and landscape enhancement promoted by several planning instruments that act at different territorial scales. Despite this, the combination of the GI strategy with other ordinary plans is poorly investigated and developed due to the difficulty in making planning instruments dialoguing in a transversal approach. This paper presents a case study in an Italian alpine sub-region (Media and Alta Valtellina, Province of Sondrio) focused on a regional GI—defined by a landscape plan—used for testing a replicable methodology to downscale regional strategies by combining them with sub-regional environmental and landscape rules and recommendations derived from planning instruments. The aim is to create an organic connection between GI goals and other sub-regional planning instruments that would otherwise remain siloed within the hierarchical downscaling process of the top-down planning system. The result is the development of a comprehensive matrix that is useful for downscaling the strategies established by a regional landscape plan in sub-regional landscape units that relapse at the local scale; this is also achieved through GI deployment and the promotion of site-specific nature-based solutions.

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Section: Connectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

An Operational Model to Downscale Regional Green Infrastructures in Supra-Local Plans: A Case Study in an Italian Alpine Sub-Region

Pristeri,

di Martino,

Ronchi

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…For instance, converting vacant land into stormwater management systems requires flexible and responsible management structure tools, such as land banks to help municipalities identify suitable vacant parcels [123]. Without the flexibility of AG, it would be time-consuming and difficult for municipal agencies to respond to social and environmental disturbances [27].…”

Section: Adaptive Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Likewise, due to the unused nature of urban vacant lots and the greening opportunities, they are mostly documented under the transformative governance approach in the literature. Nevertheless, there is room to examine their applicability for implementing some temporary socio-cultural services, short-term activities or policies (e.g., land bank in the U.S.) which can be matched with the adaptive governance approach [27,102,123]. More recently, digital tools such as smart ecosystems and the internet of trees as digital networks are new concepts that can support the environmental transformative governance approach [168,169].…”

Section: Transformative Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…UGI governance is defined here as the "processes, interactions, organizations, and decisions" related to greenspace provision and administration, as defined by Lawrence et al [26]. Although there is no consensus to define UGI, one of the most recently published studies indicates UGI as a multiscalar concept, which can range from small-scale green infrastructure such as rain gardens, pocket parks, community gardens, and green lands, to large-scale facilities targeting the protection and preservation of the natural habitats [27]. Small-scale UGI offers a unique opportunity to enhance ES while minimizing disservices [28][29][30][31].…”

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confidence: 99%

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How Do Different Modes of Governance Support Ecosystem Services/Disservices in Small-Scale Urban Green Infrastructure? A Systematic Review

Asl

Pearsall

2022

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As cities are facing environmental and societal challenges, including climate change, rapid urbanization, and the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars and policymakers have recognized the potential of small-scale urban green infrastructures (UGI), such as rain gardens and street trees, to support important ecosystem services (ES) during periods of crisis and change. While there has been considerable research on the design, planning, engineering, and ecology of small-scale UGI, the governance modes of such spaces to support ES and manage ecosystem disservices (EDS) have received significantly less research attention. In this article, we provide a systematic review to evaluate how different modes of governance support different ES in small-scale green infrastructure. We evaluated governance in six types of small-scale green infrastructure: small parks, community gardens, vacant lands, rain gardens, green roofs, and street trees. Our review examines the different characteristics of four new governance approaches, including adaptive, network, mosaic, and transformative to understand their bottom-up nature and applicability in governing ES/disservices of small-scale UGI. Each governance mode can be effective for managing the ES of certain small-scale UGI, given their associations with principles such as resilience thinking, connectivity, and active citizenship. Our synthesis highlights knowledge gaps at the intersection between governance arrangements and ES in small-scale UGI. We conclude with a call for further research on the environmental and contextual factors that moderate the linkages between governance modes and ES/EDS in different types of UGI.

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“…Concerning the research scale, current research related to assessing the supply and demand for ESs is mainly focused on macroregions [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Although many researchers have made innovative explorations on street-scale GI design [15][16][17][18], the complex dynamic supply and demand mechanism still needs to be combined with urban functional zoning and specific demand groups for more systematic studies. In terms of research methods, the basic idea behind existing ecosystem service supply and demand assessment methods is mainly to calculate and superimpose aggregate supply and aggregate demand separately to identify excessive supply or excessive demand.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identification of Priority Implementation Areas and Configuration Types for Green Infrastructure Based on Ecosystem Service Demands in Metropolitan City

Wang

Tang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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During urbanization in developing countries, fragmentation of green infrastructure due to increasing populations and the expansion of construction land leads to an extremely serious imbalance between the supply and demand for urban ecosystem services. In this study, the central city of Zhengzhou, a central city in central China, was selected as the study area and the excessive demand for six ecosystem services, namely, air purification, flood regulation, heat regulation, hydrological regulation, CO2 sequestration and recreational services, was quantitatively evaluated. The entropy method was used to calculate the weights of various ecosystem services, and spatial overlay analysis was performed to obtain the comprehensive ecosystem service excessive demand. Finally, bivariate spatial autocorrelation analysis was used to explore the response of population density to comprehensive excessive demand for ESs. The results of this study indicate that: (1) The most prevalent need is for more CO2 regulation service throughout the study area. (2) Except for hydrological regulation service, the spatial distribution of the remaining highly excessive ecosystem service demands are mostly concentrated in old neighborhoods. (3) Of the six excessively demanded economic services, rainwater regulation obtained the greatest weight, reflecting the poor urban infrastructure configuration for countering the rapidly increasing threat of flooding caused by climate change in the city. (4) The comprehensive ecosystem service excessive demand results show that there are eight priority green infrastructure implementation blocks in the central city of Zhengzhou. (5) There were three agglomeration types between population density and comprehensive excessive demand for ESs: high-high type, low-high type and low-low type. The spatial distribution characteristics of population density and comprehensive ES demand are positively correlated. The results of this study could help to provide information for decision making when delineating the priority areas and types of green infrastructure implementation in developing cities.

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A multiple scale, function, and type approach to determine and improve Green Infrastructure of urban watersheds

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

An Operational Model to Downscale Regional Green Infrastructures in Supra-Local Plans: A Case Study in an Italian Alpine Sub-Region

An Operational Model to Downscale Regional Green Infrastructures in Supra-Local Plans: A Case Study in an Italian Alpine Sub-Region

How Do Different Modes of Governance Support Ecosystem Services/Disservices in Small-Scale Urban Green Infrastructure? A Systematic Review

Identification of Priority Implementation Areas and Configuration Types for Green Infrastructure Based on Ecosystem Service Demands in Metropolitan City

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