Clustering public urban green spaces through ecosystem services potential: A typology proposal for place-based interventions

Vidal, Diogo Guedes; Dias, Ricardo Cunha; Teixeira, Catarina Patoilo; Fernandes, Cláudia Oliveira; Filho, Walter Leal; Barros, Nelson; Maia, Rui Leandro

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2022.03.002

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“…According to our comparison of the mean values of ESV growth volume and growth rate under the five development patterns, first, the ecological effects of the city under the coordinated and diversified development pattern were able to stabilize at a high level. Moreover, the continuous rapid urban expansion negatively affected the value of ecosystem services [61], and the average annual growth volume and growth rate of ESV under the unbalanced biased economic expansion development pattern in each period were at a low level, as confirmed by our study. Second, we also found that some cities have maintained a high ESV growth and growth rate, despite the purely economic expansion pattern of development over a certain period, i.e., a constant expansion of production and living areas, due to the rich resource base of the city that can guarantee a stable growth of ESVs over a short period, masking to some extent the drawbacks of this pattern.…”

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“…The issue of concern in the field of spatial planning revolves around the ecological and environmental effects arising from the urban land use process, and it has become an academic consensus to use ESV as a measure of ecological and environmental effects [61,62]. Compared to the existing literature on measuring the value of ecosystem services within cities and between regions and the influencing factors, this paper focuses more on the assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of the ecological effects measured by ecosystem values under different development patterns.…”

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Spatio-Temporal Evolution Characteristics, Development Patterns, and Ecological Effects of “Production-Living-Ecological Space” at the City Level in China

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Effective production, living, and ecological space allocation is essential for advancing territorial policy optimization and improving the sustainability of land resource use. Based on the theory of the “production-living-ecological” space (PLES), the present study uses the spatial transfer matrix model, the coupling degree model, and ecosystem service value measurement to analyze the changes in the number and structural characteristics of the PLES and the evolution pattern of development in 336 cities in China from 2000 to 2020 and to evaluate the resulting ecological effects. The results are as follows: the living space is growing; the agricultural production space is decreasing; and the ecological space has been decreasing and then increasing. The evolution of the city space structure has five distinct patterns of development. Cities in the southeast with high urbanization rates have shifted from the pure economic expansion development pattern to the coordinated diversified development pattern. In contrast, the cities in the northeast and northwest, where ecological space accounts for an absolute proportion, still prefer the economic expansion development pattern. There is still a struggle between the “impulse of local development” and the “objective of central coordination”. The development patterns of ecological protection and the coordinated diversified development patterns have higher ecological effects among the five development approaches, confirming the effectiveness of the territorial spatial planning policy under the coordinated development objective. Meanwhile, the optimization of future spatial planning policies should consider not only the rational allocation of space but also the quality development of space.

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Spatio-Temporal Evolution Characteristics, Development Patterns, and Ecological Effects of “Production-Living-Ecological Space” at the City Level in China

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“…This research is built around cluster analysis techniques, which are procedures of evaluation that can be used to assess green areas [56]. Forest areas with assigned scores for the set of qualitative and quantitative variables were grouped with a weighted k-means algorithm [57].…”

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Recreational Evaluation of Forests in Urban Environments: Methodological and Practical Aspects

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This literature review shows that there is no up-to-date common approach to assess the recreational potential of forests. The aim of the study is to present methodological and practical aspects of the evaluation of forests in urban environments for recreational purposes based on the example of urban forests in Poznań (Poland). In this research, the following evaluation criteria were selected: types of forest habitats, ages of dominant species, stand composition, stocking index, the share of undergrowth, soil cover, canopy closure, and surface water. All these criteria are presented in the forest management plan (FMP). We prove that the majority of stands within the study area (81.86%) have medium potential for recreational purposes. Moreover, regarding recreation services, documents existing within the study area are not specified enough. The undoubted advantages of the proposed method are a forestry perspective on the problem, a uniform dataset included in FMPs, data availability, and the possibility of comparing data from different areas.

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“…The PMA and the city of Porto lack green spaces, and some of them are of lower quality and inscribed in areas of great environmental deprivation [69,70]. The expansion of the subway line (namely, the pink line) could increase this level of environmental deprivation and potentially lead to other consequences caused by the subsurface urban heat island, whose empirical body of evidence is still very small and should be given particular attention in the coming years (issues inherent in the expansion of the metro line and the existence of piped water distribution systems throughout the city).…”

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The Use of Collaborative Practices for Climate Change Adaptation in the Tourism Sector until 2040—A Case Study in the Porto Metropolitan Area (Portugal)

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When climate change became a global concern in the 1980s, mitigation was considered the best strategy to address all challenges. For a long time, it was thought possible to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which, according to many experts, brought on an unfit adaptation. There are international agreements designed to significantly reduce CO2 emissions and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, but the policy measures taken so far are insufficient to achieve this goal. In addition, the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the relevance of placing this issue at the core of international policies and the need for bottom-up measures and options. The purpose of this paper is to explore how collaborative planning can contribute to adapting the urban tourism sector to climate change in the Porto Metropolitan Area (PMA), located in the northern region of mainland Portugal. In this investigation, we used mixed methods based on the following: (1) the discussion of urban tourism’s adaptation planning to climate change with undergraduate students; (2) the application of a modified Delphi questionnaire survey, to 47 international researchers and technicians in the first round and 35 international researchers and technicians in the second round, about the predictability of the adaptation measures; and (3) a theoretical-practical workshop aimed to discuss the main action intentions and ways of adaptation in the short and medium term. All empirical data were collected during the year of 2021. This research highlights the need for more detailed information, the weak interaction between stakeholders and the limitation of resources. Our research identifies the main impacts and local vulnerabilities and determines priorities for adaptation and implementation of actions, aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change and maintaining tourism attractiveness in urban areas. In addition, this investigation allowed the definition of a research agenda, which seeks to guide the area of tourism climatology regarding the new challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Clustering public urban green spaces through ecosystem services potential: A typology proposal for place-based interventions

Cited by 14 publications

References 67 publications

Spatio-Temporal Evolution Characteristics, Development Patterns, and Ecological Effects of “Production-Living-Ecological Space” at the City Level in China

Spatio-Temporal Evolution Characteristics, Development Patterns, and Ecological Effects of “Production-Living-Ecological Space” at the City Level in China

Recreational Evaluation of Forests in Urban Environments: Methodological and Practical Aspects

The Use of Collaborative Practices for Climate Change Adaptation in the Tourism Sector until 2040—A Case Study in the Porto Metropolitan Area (Portugal)

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