Planning Landscape Corridors in Ecological Infrastructure Using Least-Cost Path Methods Based on the Value of Ecosystem Services

Lee, Jung A; Chon, Jinhyung; Ahn, Changwoo

doi:10.3390/su6117564

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“…Still, others take an even a broader perspective, including hybrid and artificial built infrastructure, such as green roofs and walls, and even grey infrastructure such as roads and utilities [12,16,48,64]. Another related term, ecological infrastructure, tended to be preferred by Chinese authors [31,64,72]. Variations in the description of GI can be attributed to the evolution in the concept from a spatial focus on conservation of natural ecosystems for habitat and recreation to a more deliberate technical/functional approach to incorporate ecosystems services infrastructure into the built environment for human welfare, and in support of sustainability [71].…”

Section: Green Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Urban Planning and Design: A Systematic Literature Review

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Urbanization is a defining feature of the modern age, yet the current model of urban development profoundly alters the natural environment, often reducing biodiversity and ultimately threatening human wellbeing. An ecologically based urban planning and design paradigm should consider a more harmonious relationship. Through a systematic literature review of 57 papers, this research identified relevant concepts and theories that could underpin this new paradigm. It revealed a noticeable increase in academic interest in this subject since 2013 and the development of concepts and theories that reflect a more holistic socio-ecological systems approach to urban planning and design based on a transdisciplinary integration and synthesis of research. Seven main themes underpin the academic literature: ecosystem services, socio-ecological systems, resilience, biodiversity, landscape, green infrastructure, as well as integrated and holistic approaches. Six of these can be organised into either a sustainability stream or a spatial stream, representing the foundations of a potential new ecological urban planning and design paradigm that applies sustainability-related concepts in a spatial setting. The final theme, integrated and holistic, includes concepts that reflect the fundamental characteristics of this new paradigm, which can be termed ‘urban consonance’.

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Section: Green Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Urban Planning and Design: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…Taking a close-up examination, a strong power regression relationship with the correlation coefficient as 0.74 was established between the impervious surface percentage and the combined ecological value per unit (Figure 4), which confirms that the area with higher impervious surface percentage has more influences on the ecological value estimated on the local level in Corvallis. This also implies that converting the ecosystem service into the combined economic ecological value could be a way to deal with ecosystem services trade-offs [54], and local land owners could lessen urbanization's ecological impacts by controlling the impervious percentage within their land, even though they may not change environment degradation drivers on the regional scale [55].…”

Section: Ecological Value Distributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Approach to Evaluate Comprehensive Plan and Identify Priority Lands for Future Land Use Development to Conserve More Ecological Values

Zhou

Woodfin

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Urbanization has significant impacts on the regional environmental quality through altering natural lands, converting them to urban built-up areas. One common strategy applied by urban planners to manage urbanization and preserve natural resources is to make a comprehensive plan and concentrate future land use in certain areas. However, in practice, planners used to make future land use planning mainly based on their subjective interpretations with limited ecological supporting evidence and analysis. Here, we propose a new approach composed of ecological modelling and land use zoning in the spatial matrix to evaluate the comprehensive plan and identify priority lands for sustainable land use planning. We use the city of Corvallis, OR, as the test bed to demonstrate this new approach. The results indicate that the Corvallis Comprehensive Plan 1998-2020 featured with compact development is not performing efficiently in conserving ecological values, and the land use plan featured with mixed-use spreading development generated by the proposed approach meets the city's land demands for urban growth, and conserves 103% more ecological value of retaining storm water nitrogen, 270% more ecological value of retaining storm water phosphorus and 19% more ecological value in storing carbon in the whole watershed. This study indicates that if planned with scientific analysis and evidence, spreading urban development does not necessarily result in less sustainable urban environment than the compact development recommended in smart growth.

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“…Then, the 15 regional factors were integrated into four comprehensive indices using the entropy weight method. The four comprehensive indices refer to the economic index [33,34], infrastructure index [35,36], ecological environment index [37,38], and social development index [39,40]. When the mean value of the original data is normalized, it can minimize the influence of dimensions when SPSS.21 is used for the regional factor analysis.…”

Section: Estimation Of the Comprehensive Strength Of The Social Develmentioning

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Ecosystem Services Value Assessment and Uneven Development of the Qingjiang River Basin in China

Lin

Qian

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Sustainability

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Abstract:As an important ecological barrier in Southwest China, the Qingjiang river basin plays a vital role in shaping the mountainous terrain. This paper analyzes the Ecosystem Services Value (ESV) using a series of methods based on the data of changes in land use from 2000 to 2015 and the statistical yearbook. The changes in land use between 2000 and 2015 were dominated by forest land, which accounted for 60.63% of the total area, followed by arable landwhich accounted for about 22.26%, while grassland and other land use contribution rates were the lowest, accounting for only about 17.11%. Environmental changes and economic development were uneven. The regional comprehensive strength of En'shi City, Changyang County, and Yidu City were among the highest, while Badong County, Hefeng County, and Wufeng County were among the lowest in the area under study. In addition, the ESV in 2035 was estimated to be 1.56 billion dollars, a decrease of 27.64% when compared with the year 2000. The ESV of Yidu City, Lichuan City, Jianshi County, and Hefeng County grew faster, at the rates of 94.76%, 65.12%, 96.96%, and 92.38%, respectively. However, the ESV of En'shi City, Badong County, Wufeng County and Xuan'en County showed a downward trend, at the rates of −32.53%, −487.80%, −368.07%, and −181.52%, respectively.

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Planning Landscape Corridors in Ecological Infrastructure Using Least-Cost Path Methods Based on the Value of Ecosystem Services

Cited by 41 publications

References 110 publications

Ecological Urban Planning and Design: A Systematic Literature Review

Ecological Urban Planning and Design: A Systematic Literature Review

An Approach to Evaluate Comprehensive Plan and Identify Priority Lands for Future Land Use Development to Conserve More Ecological Values

Ecosystem Services Value Assessment and Uneven Development of the Qingjiang River Basin in China

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