Ecosystem services deficits in cross-boundary landscapes: spatial mismatches between green and grey systems

Spyra, Marcin; Inostroza, Luis; Hamerla, Adam; Bondaruk, Jan

doi:10.1007/s11252-018-0740-3

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“…Using a grid approach helped to understand the analyzed impacts that were more in line with aspects of urban form, as, normally, LULC units are hierarchically arranged in space and time following six fundamental aspects [37,38]. The hexagonal grid is a powerful tool to depict the spatial structure of urban environments [39], because it can summarise the high heterogeneity the land uses that occur over short distances in a comparable manner.…”

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Who Pays the Bill? Assessing Ecosystem Services Losses in an Urban Planning Context

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Inostroza

2021

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While Ecosystem Services (ES) are crucial for sustaining human wellbeing, urban development can threaten their sustainable supply. Following recent EU directives, many countries in Europe are implementing laws and regulations to protect and improve ES at local and regional levels. However, urban planning regulations already consider mandatory compensation for the loss of nature, and this compensation is often restricted to replacing green with green in other locations. This situation might lead to the loss of ES in areas subject to urban development, a loss that would eventually be replaced elsewhere. Therefore, ES assessments should be included in urban planning to improve the environmental conditions of urban landscapes where development takes place. Using an actual planning and development example that involves a proposed road to a restructured former industrial area in Bochum, Germany, we developed an ad-hoc assessment to compare a standard environmental compensation approach applying ES. We evaluated the impact of the planned construction alternatives with both approaches. In a second step, we selected the alternative with a lower impact and estimated the ES losses from the compensation measures. Our findings show that an ES assessment provides a solid basis for the selection of development alternatives, the identification of compensation areas, and the estimation of compensation amounts, with the benefit of improving the environmental quality of the affected areas. Our method was effective in strengthening urban planning, using ES science in the assessment and evaluation of urban development alternatives.

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Who Pays the Bill? Assessing Ecosystem Services Losses in an Urban Planning Context

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Inostroza

2021

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“…For example, building higher flood defences when the better solution may be to address issues upstream in the catchment [20]. It is also the case that urban areas are often widely distributed in the landscape and exist as a form of continuum rather than always being focused into larger settlements or cities [21][22][23]. Yet, the role of administrative boundaries in driving decision making tends to consider 'the city' and 'everywhere else' as separate domains, and this viewpoint exerts a strong influence on how problems are solved.…”

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Airsheds, watersheds and more – The flows that drive intra-extra-urban connections, and their implications for nature-based solutions (NBS)

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“…This includes industrial zones, compact wholesale facilities, warehouses and logistics centers. The result is an interruption and disruption of the functioning of ecosystems [21,22] and biodiversity loss [23,24].…”

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Potential Elements of Green Infrastructure (PeGI) Inside the Core of the Village (CoV): A Case Study of Wrocław Functional Area (WFA) in Poland

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This article presents a study of the elements of green infrastructure in villages located in peri-urban areas. The research focuses on the built-up areas of villages, which together with public and private green areas, are defined as the Cores of the Village (CoV). The research was based on the Wroclaw Functional Area (WFA). The main objective of the study was to identify which sites in a CoV have the potential to increase Green Infrastructure (GI) network connectivity and how these have changed with the development of built-up areas. These sites have been defined as Potential Green Infrastructure Elements (PeGI). The study was conducted over three time periods: the early 20th century, the early 21st century and future plans. The research revealed that, within the historic CoV areas, there existed PeGIs that communicated with external GI elements, but that such connections between PeGIs and GI elements have not been taken into account in future development plans. Furthermore, increases in the area of built-up land have not been matched by an increase in PeGI area. However, through the creation of greenways, among other things, there is potential for shaping PeGI inside a CoV in a way which would strengthen GI structural connectivity.

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Ecosystem services deficits in cross-boundary landscapes: spatial mismatches between green and grey systems

Cited by 12 publications

References 41 publications

Who Pays the Bill? Assessing Ecosystem Services Losses in an Urban Planning Context

Who Pays the Bill? Assessing Ecosystem Services Losses in an Urban Planning Context

Airsheds, watersheds and more – The flows that drive intra-extra-urban connections, and their implications for nature-based solutions (NBS)

Potential Elements of Green Infrastructure (PeGI) Inside the Core of the Village (CoV): A Case Study of Wrocław Functional Area (WFA) in Poland

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