Is urban green space per capita a valuable target to achieve cities’ sustainability goals? Romania as a case study

Badiu, Denisa L.; Iojă, Cristian; Pǎtroescu, M.; Breuste, Jürgen; Artmann, Martina; Niţă, Mihai Răzvan; Grădinaru, Simona R.; Hossu, Constantina Alina; Onose, Diana Andreea

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.05.044

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“…Urban green space per capita was targeted at 26 m 2 per capita, however, was found to be unachievable for all Romania cities, indicating the need for city specific indicators that account for factors like, "density of the built-up space, the proximity to major transport infrastructure, the cities' founding period and the geomorphology criteria." (Badiu et al, 2016) The concept of "biological potential" was introduced by Croeser (2016) as a means to assess the potential for urban areas to be retrofit with green infrastructure. The concept was extended to a case study of the potential of walls in Melbourne (Australia).…”

Section: Planning and Ecosystem Service Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability

Chang¹,

DiGiovanni²,

Mei³

2017

Water Environment Research

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Selected 2016 publications on the focus of Sustainability are reviewed and discussed here. The followings are the topics presented: • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities •Sustainable water resources management • Stormwater and green infrastructure • Sustainability in water and wastewater treatment •Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications • Sustainability for water and energy, • Sustainability and asset management.

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Section: Planning and Ecosystem Service Evaluationmentioning

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Sustainability

Chang¹,

DiGiovanni²,

Mei³

2017

Water Environment Research

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“…Through urban planning, local administrations can manage the distribution of urban ecosystems and their services in a city, determining the number, location, and type of beneficiaries they reach ). However, this requires moving beyond general urban quality standards, such as per capita green space targets (Badiu et al 2016;Kabisch et al 2016), which do not capture details about the actual distribution of benefits across different areas and population groups (Larondelle and Haase 2013;Cortinovis et al 2018).…”

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Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities

Geneletti¹,

Cortinovis²,

Zardo³

et al. 2020

SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science

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“…In many cases, single indicators have been investigated in terms of their use and application in different cities and urban scale contexts [20]. However, multiple indicators are needed to measure the success of broader management and planning practices [14].…”

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Indicators for the Planning and Management of Urban Green Spaces: A Focus on Public Areas in Padua, Italy

Campagnaro¹,

Sitzia²,

Cambria³

et al. 2019

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Green spaces and trees are fundamental for the sustainability of cities. The use of management and planning indicators for green spaces, including urban forests, have been proposed, but are rarely applied and their potential to provide ecological, social, and economic benefits is usually overlooked by policy makers and managers. Here, we apply a set of indicators describing green spaces and their variability in different urban units within the Basso Isonzo, an area of the city of Padua (northern Italy). Eleven indicators were selected based on their capacity to consider availability, accessibility and the preservation or increase of urban green spaces and tree cover. The value of indicators was standardized and enabled to have five classes indicating increasing performance. The study indicates green spaces’ heterogeneous conditions. Interestingly, the indicators commonly change moving from the city center to the outskirts. Monitoring through these indicators will enable understanding whether specific management and planning targets are met and, in the absence of these targets, identifying main trends over time. The proposed approach and indicators applied are simple to collect, analyze, and convey information. The indicators are related to relevant social, economic and ecological conditions pertaining to green spaces. The proposed indicators can therefore be used as a simple tool to guide decision-making with the aim of enhancing green spaces.

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Is urban green space per capita a valuable target to achieve cities’ sustainability goals? Romania as a case study

Cited by 168 publications

References 58 publications

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Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities

Indicators for the Planning and Management of Urban Green Spaces: A Focus on Public Areas in Padua, Italy

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