Assessing the benefits of reclaiming urban quarries: a CVM analysis

Damigos, D.; Kaliampakos, Dimitris

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(02)00243-8

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“…It has been demonstrated that such public services, scattered through the close network of buildings, help in providing aesthetical, ecological and economic benefits. Some of them provide positive effects on human health, both from a physical and psychological point of view, a greater capacity to control air pollution, noise reduction, microclimatology condition improvement and a wide range of recreational activities (Tyrväinen and Miettinen 2000;Damigos and Kaliampakos 2003).…”

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“…In Europe, for instance, there are those in Helsinki (Saltikoff and others 1994) and Athens, where some 200 ha (1 ha equals to 10,000 sq. m), comprised in the metropolitan conurbation, are occupied by 60 quarries (Damigos and Kaliampakos 2003). Widening the analysis to China, in Guangzhou and Guangdong periphery there are 6 abandoned quarries comprised within the industrial area of Nansha and the urban centre (Chen and others 2008).…”

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Identification of Quarries Rehabilitation Scenarios: A Case Study Within the Metropolitan Area of Bari (Italy)

Sasso

Ottolino

Caliandro

2012

Environmental Management

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This paper addresses quarries rehabilitation issue within a Metropolitan Area. Areas where mining activity is carried out have been subjected to physical and environmental degradation linked both to pursue the building materials extraction and to the city expansion continuously asking for new areas to be developed with residential and service functions. These changes also occurred where environmental and landscape values are present. It has been therefore pointed out the issue of such areas redevelopment that, to be functionally reintegrated, must be consistently linked to the activities and the territorial local contexts characteristics. In this paper the quarries reuse issue is carried out through parameters identification able to define the quarries relationship with the neighboring towns and with their surroundings besides to identify their physical, environmental and landscaping characteristics. Quarry reuse alternatives have been identified among those consistent with the rehabilitation goals, as defined by the planning sector and internationally approved, while their selection is derived from the application of a two-step methodology: a multi-criteria analysis related to punctual parameters at a "site-specific" level, followed by a further territorial indicators checking over the wide area. This application has led to socially accepted results identifying the examined quarries for reuses ranging from agricultural-forestry and urban to functional or naturalistic. The proposed method has also proved to be suitable to address the abandoned quarries reuse problem with a systemic and consultative approach, as it is able to correlate the many variables present in the social and spatial complexity of the Metropolitan Areas.

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Identification of Quarries Rehabilitation Scenarios: A Case Study Within the Metropolitan Area of Bari (Italy)

Sasso

Ottolino

Caliandro

2012

Environmental Management

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“…The approach can be used to estimate the economic losses from environmental damage or economic gains from environmental improvements. Specifically, the results of the CVM reveal survey respondents' willingness to pay (WTP) for an environmental good or their willingness to accept (WTA) compensation for the loss of this good (Mitchell andCarson 1989, Damigos andKaliampakos 2003); therefore, WTP and WTA are actually different measures of the same environmental goods or services (Hicks 1939, Venkatachalam 2006, Zhao et al 2007). In theory, WTP and WTA should represent the same degree of change in the environment (i.e., WTP for a 1-unit improvement in quality should hold the same magnitude as a WTA 1-unit decrease in quality); however, there is a disparity between the WTP and WTA values for the same good.…”

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Public demand for remediating a local ecosystem: comparing WTP and WTA at Hongze Lake, China

Huang

Ban

Duan

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Lake and Reservoir Management

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“…Rehabilitation seeks to repair one or more ecosystem attributes, processes, or services. Reclamation, on the other hand, includes land stabilization, public safety guarantees, aesthetic improvement, and usually a return of the ecosystem considered useful in the regional context [11,12].…”

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Index System to Evaluate the Quarries Ecological Restoration

Zhang

Liu

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The restoration and evaluation of degraded ecosystems is an important component of the sustainable development of complex "human-natural-economic" ecosystems. Based on an analysis of ecosystem evolution and the integration of structure, function, and services, this study proposes that ecosystems can be returned to a self-maintaining, dynamic balance by enriching system elements, strengthening the relationships between the different elements and diverse ecological processes, and restoring internal functions, which includes the self-regulation of degraded ecosystems. This study developed and categorized quarry ecosystem recovery indicators based on the Core Capabilities of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International through literature review and the development of recovery plans. Metrics identified in the literature were validated through the recovery plan review and the case study, and based on the findings, a user-friendly checklist for practitioners was established. Three elements and 17 indicators representing ecological processes, vegetation structures, and ecological functions were developed to evaluate and manage the ecological restoration of an abandoned quarry.

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Assessing the benefits of reclaiming urban quarries: a CVM analysis

Cited by 75 publications

References 10 publications

Identification of Quarries Rehabilitation Scenarios: A Case Study Within the Metropolitan Area of Bari (Italy)

Identification of Quarries Rehabilitation Scenarios: A Case Study Within the Metropolitan Area of Bari (Italy)

Public demand for remediating a local ecosystem: comparing WTP and WTA at Hongze Lake, China

Index System to Evaluate the Quarries Ecological Restoration

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