The green side of the grey: Assessing greenspaces in built-up areas of Italy

Sallustio, Lorenzo; Perone, A.; Vizzarri, Matteo; Corona, Piermaria; Fares, Silvano; Cocozza, Claudia; Tognetti, Roberto; Lasserre, Bruno; Marchetti, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2017.10.018

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“…It is well-established in the literature that the use of NBS would lead to the growth of soft engineering approaches for nourishing synergies between natural capitals, an economically empowered population, and the improvement of health due to a reduced disaster risk, such as floods [41][42][43]. NBS as an alternative to grey infrastructure, such as concrete walls, can be developed by increasing green areas through urban forestry and plantation [44], preserving urban inland water bodies and wetlands [45,46], the deployment of sustainable, cost-efficient, and environment-friendly urban drainage and sewage systems [47], and reducing the impervious surface cover by increasing green cover [48]. However, substantial evidence is required to understand the importance of NBS as alternatives to hard-engineered solutions, and their positive implications must bring out collective economic, social, and environmental benefits in producing various regulatory, provisioning, supporting, and cultural urban ecosystem services.…”

Section: Nature-based Solutions: An Alternate Approach To Address Environmental and Socio-ecological Problemsmentioning

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Theoretical Framework to Assess Green Roof Performance in Mitigating Urban Flooding as a Potential Nature-Based Solution

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Increases in extreme hydro-meteorological events due to climate change and decreases in soil permeability and infiltration due to urbanization have increased the risk of flooding, particularly in cities. The limitation of the expansion of conventional drainage systems to manage excess stormwater leads to the application of nature-based solutions (NBS) to control flooding. This study explores potential of green roof NBS for rainfall-fed flood reduction, which can utilize existing roof space for deployment. A detailed literature survey using systematic literature-search procedures was conducted to investigate the performance of extensive/intensive green roofs in runoff reduction using monitoring/modeling approaches. Since limited studies have explored the use of semi-intensive green roofs for flood management, a new simulation study has been developed to compare the effectiveness of semi-intensive green roofs. The performance of different types of vegetation used on green roofs in runoff reduction was investigated using a simulation study, which was validated using a real-world green roof deployed in Dublin.

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Section: Nature-based Solutions: An Alternate Approach To Address Environmental and Socio-ecological Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theoretical Framework to Assess Green Roof Performance in Mitigating Urban Flooding as a Potential Nature-Based Solution

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“…For example, despite the fact that USC3 is typical for designated urban fabric, it is more likely to find USC8 in close proximity to buildings. Some soils within USC8 can be classified as Mollic Gleysols (Technic) or Gleyic Phaeozems (Technic) as soils of urban green spaces in built-up areas (Quatrini et al, 2019;Sallustio et al, 2019). Furthermore, the developed PI can be also modified by testing other landscape metrics.…”

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Landscape metrics as a tool for analysis of urban pedodiversity

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Landscape metrics play an important role in pedodiversity studies. Despite considerable research on pedodiversity, there is a lack of standardised methods for assessing the degree of soil cover diversity, especially in the urban area. Hence, in this work, we propose a new approach for spatial analyses of the urban soils using landscape metrics. The aim of the study was to develop a qualitative-quantitative landscapemetrics-based method for the pedodiversity measurement and the degree of soils' transformation. The research included: selection of input data (cartographic materials), data digitisation, development of an urban soil map and a soil transformation map, creation of a hexagonal grid within the city's administrative boundaries, calculation of eight landscape metrics and their statistical selection, and finally, development of the maps based on original pedodiversity index. Despite the homogeneous initial soil cover of the city, the present, human-transformed soil cover is relatively heterogeneous by urban soil complexes and the degree of soil transformation. The developed method allows areas of greatest landscape fragmentation to be identified, and thereby to precisely indicate the areas of the most strongly human-transformed soils and fertile soil losses, which can support urban spatial planning and landscape design.

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“…In the case of urban planning, adoption of environment-friendly solutions and legislation and policy development become imperative. Both Sicard et al (2018) and Sallustio et al (2019) recommended improving the green infrastructure of the city. While the former suggested urban forest management, the latter proposed the monitoring of green spaces in builtup areas and balancing the space allocation between humans and green cover.…”

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Nature-Based Solutions in Tourism: A Review of the Literature and Conceptualization

Panchapakesan

Ramakrishna

Rasoolimanesh

2019

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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“Nature based solutions” are innovative solutions, which are inspired from nature, and applied to contemporary societal problems such as climate change, overtourism, poverty alleviation, and so on. The research on “nature-based solutions” in tourism is rudimentary and the main objective of this study is to identify and conceptualize the nature-based solutions in tourism. For this purpose, a hybrid literature review has been conducted in the scientific fields of tourism and hospitality as well as agriculture, building sector, and urban planning. An examination of the characteristics of the nature-based solutions have led to its conceptualization based on six constituent dimensions such as empowerment of stakeholders, monitoring the state of natural environment, economic development of residents, adoption of environment-friendly solutions, and changing the mind-set of stakeholders. Finally, limitations of the current study have been identified and some recommendations for further research have been provided.

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The green side of the grey: Assessing greenspaces in built-up areas of Italy

Cited by 20 publications

References 55 publications

Theoretical Framework to Assess Green Roof Performance in Mitigating Urban Flooding as a Potential Nature-Based Solution

Theoretical Framework to Assess Green Roof Performance in Mitigating Urban Flooding as a Potential Nature-Based Solution

Landscape metrics as a tool for analysis of urban pedodiversity

Nature-Based Solutions in Tourism: A Review of the Literature and Conceptualization

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