Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy

Staccione, Andrea; Candiago, Sebastian; Myšiak, Jaroslav

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.017

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“…Integration of bioswales with current urban infrastructure is a significant challenge. To tackle this difficulty, three approaches including "flexible design" 42 , "interconnected SCP network" 43 and "community engagement" 44 are recommended. In this study, "flexible design" could represent the conversion of bioretention cells from bioswales into modular units that are designed to suit the various site constraints and space conditions seen in high-density communities.…”

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Harnessing the runoff reduction potential of urban bioswales as an adaptation response to climate change

Lu,

Johnson,

Zhu

et al. 2024

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Nature-based solutions (NbS), including China's Sponge City Program (SCP), can address the challenges urban communities face due to surface runoff and flooding. The current capacity of SCP facilities in urban environments falls short of meeting the demands placed on communities by climate change. Bioswales are a form of SCP facility that plays an important role in reducing surface runoff by promoting infiltration. This study assesses the potential of SCP facilities to reduce runoff in urban communities under climate change using the storm water management model. The study site in Ningbo, China, was used to evaluate the potential role of bioswales in reducing runoff risks from climate change. We found that bioswales were most effective in scenarios when rainfall peaks occurred early and were less effective in right-skewed rainfall events. The overall performance of SCP facilities was similar across all climate scenarios. To maintain the current protection level of SCP facilities, bioswales would need to cover at least 4% of the catchment area. These findings from Ningbo provide a useful method for assessing NbS in other regions and indicative values for the increase in the bioswale coverage needed to adapt to climate change.

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Harnessing the runoff reduction potential of urban bioswales as an adaptation response to climate change

Lu,

Johnson,

Zhu

et al. 2024

Sci Rep

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“…Spatial information on green infrastructure obtained from remote sensing processed with geographic information systems (GIS) provides a technological approach to evidence-based urban planning and can be used to inform needs-based green infrastructure delivery [30,31]. Decision support tools are used to process spatial data into easily understandable maps or for modeling different scenarios for stakeholders and decisionmakers [32][33][34][35]. Several studies have made progress towards the development of technical approaches that capture the complexity of the multifunctional benefits provided by green infrastructure, providing systematic support for site selection and prioritization of green infrastructure planning [10,30,32,34,35].…”

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“…Decision support tools are used to process spatial data into easily understandable maps or for modeling different scenarios for stakeholders and decisionmakers [32][33][34][35]. Several studies have made progress towards the development of technical approaches that capture the complexity of the multifunctional benefits provided by green infrastructure, providing systematic support for site selection and prioritization of green infrastructure planning [10,30,32,34,35]. Analysis has focused on a range of scales from single green roofs to census tracts between local and regional considerations, while the types of interventions discussed span rewilding, biodiversity conservation, and rehabilitation at the natural end of the continuum to new pocket park establishment, urban greening, and upgrading activities at the urban end of the continuum [10,30,32,34,35].…”

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“…Several studies have made progress towards the development of technical approaches that capture the complexity of the multifunctional benefits provided by green infrastructure, providing systematic support for site selection and prioritization of green infrastructure planning [10,30,32,34,35]. Analysis has focused on a range of scales from single green roofs to census tracts between local and regional considerations, while the types of interventions discussed span rewilding, biodiversity conservation, and rehabilitation at the natural end of the continuum to new pocket park establishment, urban greening, and upgrading activities at the urban end of the continuum [10,30,32,34,35]. The distribution of studies has been predominantly in the Global North and has discussed the green infrastructure benefits in isolation of Global South challenges [10], especially in Africa.…”

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A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization

Brom

Engemann

Breed

et al. 2023

Land

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Multifunctional green infrastructure, a key component of compact sustainable cities, is challenged by the pressures associated with rapid urbanization. In this paper, we present a method that uses remote sensing, GIS modeling and stakeholder engagement to produce a decision support tool that communicates the availability and need for green infrastructure benefits. The case study presented is the City of Tshwane, South Africa, a Global South city facing rapid urbanization. We found that this method of mapping green infrastructure benefits can provide simultaneous oversight on multiple objectives for green infrastructure, including climate change adaptation, biodiversity, and equitable distribution of urban green space. We found that low-scoring benefit areas occur in dense urban areas where small-scale nature-based solutions or rehabilitation activities are required. Moderate benefit scores occurred in parts of the city that are vulnerable to urban expansion and densification activities, warranting the careful planning of green infrastructure provision, and that moderate-to-high-scoring areas can be protected as conservation areas. The results are discussed in terms of the role of decision support tools for urban planning practice. Composite indexes can provide important guidance to decision-makers involved in spatial planning and urban upgrading and expansion activities.

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“…It is related to the development of urban green space, and it mainly aims at protecting biodiversity, strengthening the supply of ecosystem services, and improving the health and well-being of residents [ 20 , 21 , 22 ]. The spatial distribution and structure of UGI directly affect the function of urban green spaces [ 23 ]. However, UGI is mostly regarded as a planning and policy concept that lacks the immediacy that decision-makers pay more attention to [ 17 ].…”

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Influences of Land Policy on Urban Ecological Corridors Governance: A Case Study from Shanghai

Zhou

Shen

2022

IJERPH

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The analysis of land use change (LUC) characteristics and the impact of policies related to urban ecological space is required to improve spatial planning and to support decision making regarding green infrastructure (GI) investment. This study employed Geo-informatic Tupu analysis and Fluctuation Potential Tupu analysis methods to analyze the characteristics of LUC in an urban ecological corridor (EC). To help understand the influence of land use policy on GI governance and support the optimization of spatial planning, we propose a new policy cascade analysis framework. situation–structure–implementation–outcome (SSIO). SSIO takes “place” as its starting point, then couples the local policy with the governance structure to promote the sustainability of urban commons governance. The results show that the land use type within an EC in the city is mainly cultivated land. However, between 2009 and 2019, cultivated land, construction land, and facility agricultural land all showed a decreasing trend, while forest land and garden land types underwent increasing trends. The LUC Tupu unit highlights the transition from cultivated land to forest. Forest has the greatest increase in area and accounts for 52.34% of the area of increasing land use. Cultivated land shows the greatest decrease in area and accounts for 70.30% of the area of decreasing trends. Based on the local policy situation of the metropolis, a land policy governance mechanism can be constructed by the establishment of a governance structure with local government as the core, using land consolidation as the platform, taking ecological spatial planning and inefficient construction land reduction as typical policy tools, and experimentally integrating the concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). In general, these findings may be applicable to other rapidly urbanizing cities around the world that are developing complex land use policies for ecological space governance.

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Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy

Cited by 27 publications

References 46 publications

Harnessing the runoff reduction potential of urban bioswales as an adaptation response to climate change

Harnessing the runoff reduction potential of urban bioswales as an adaptation response to climate change

A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization

Influences of Land Policy on Urban Ecological Corridors Governance: A Case Study from Shanghai

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