Sustainable Policies to Improve Urban Ecosystem Resilience

Lotto, Roberto De; Esopi, Giulia; Sturla, Savannah

doi:10.2495/sdp-v12-n4-780-788

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“…The adaptive cycle [40] is often considered to be a central metaphor in the conceptualization of the dynamics of change in social-ecological resilience. Adaptability is indeed a key aspect of resilience of social-ecological systems as it considers the interrelation between concepts of "diversity (biodiversity), redundancy (ecological variability), cycles of adaptation (multiple equilibrium states), and interaction between spatial scales (hierarchy) and temporal (activation of different times responses)" [41] (p. 780).…”

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Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience

Voghera

Giudice

2019

Sustainability

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In the light of the current changing global scenarios, green infrastructure is obtaining increasing relevance in planning policies, especially due to its ecological, environmental and social components which contribute to pursuing sustainable and resilient planning and designing of cities and territories. The issue of green infrastructure is framed within the conceptual contexts of sustainability and resilience, which are described through the analysis of their common aspects and differences with a particular focus on planning elements. In particular, the paper uses two distinct case studies of green infrastructure as representative: the green infrastructure of the Region Languedoc-Roussillon in France and the one of the Province of Turin in Italy. The analysis of two case studies focuses on the evaluation process carried on about the social-ecological system and describes the methodologies and the social-ecological indicators used to define the green infrastructure network. We related these indicators to their possible contribution to the measurement of sustainability and resilience. The analysis of this relationship led us to outline some conclusive considerations on the complex role of the design of green infrastructure with reference to sustainability and resilience.

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Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience

Voghera

Giudice

2019

Sustainability

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“…These approaches include ecological restoration, ecological engineering, forest landscape restoration, ecosystem-based adaptation, ecosystem-based mitigation, ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction, green infrastructure, ecosystem-based management, and various area-based conservation approaches such as protected area management [9,16,17].…”

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“…Green infrastructures (GIs) are nature-based solutions that can help societies to address a range of environmental, social, and economic challenges sustainably. Green infrastructures aim to establish a natural continuum that uses nature as a means for providing ecosystem services such as water and air purification, and biodiversity, among others, and, concurrently, offers long-term answers to the issues arising from climate change [16]. Also, GI contributes to encouraging connectivity besides functionality; connectivity is indeed a trigger of sustainable and resilient urban forms.…”

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Using Different Levels of Information in Planning Green Infrastructure in Luanda, Angola

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Integrating natural processes to build areas through the creation of green infrastructure (GI) in Africa with its rapid urbanisation is a challenge because of the information base. The aim of this paper is planning a GI linking biophysical, social, and legal contents in a specific Africa country with an approach that combines different scales and different levels of data and information. The paper proposes a framework beginning at the macro scale to integrate and operationalise the definition of GI in an African context, namely for the Luanda metropolitan area. The approach to nature and ecological structure (GI) has four phases: analysis, integration, diagnosis and proposal. All steps are developed in a GIS environment and consider variations in the biophysical, social, cultural, and legal dimensions. The research discusses the problems in collecting existing information and leads with missing data within the context of urbanisation growth and climate change adaptation. The proposed green infrastructure includes protected areas (existing and proposed), natural values, risk areas, rivers, and agricultural areas, to increase resilience and flexibility in an adaptation context. The results allow to include in the GI the mangrove areas, native flora, vegetated slopes, and riverbanks, providing a buffering function for natural hazards, crucial for these regions, with the aim to achieve the needs of creating a strategic GI to be implemented into the Luanda General Master Plan.

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Framing Green and Blue Infrastructure

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Novarina

Voghera

2023

The Urban Book Series

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Green and blue infrastructure (GBI) is increasingly popular in international literature and cultural debates. Indeed, international opinion agrees that GBI is a strategic planning and design tool to face current and upcoming societal challenges. However, goals and practical applications are not fixed and differ based on disciplinary approaches and geographical areas. Thus, the chapter attempts to provide a systematic frame on the current cultural debate on GBI, presenting the diverse contributions deriving from planning and design practices, from vast scale strategies to local projects.

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Sustainable Policies to Improve Urban Ecosystem Resilience

Abstract: In the contemporary debate about key issues of urban science (sustainability, environment, governance, etc

Cited by 4 publications

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Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience

Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience

Using Different Levels of Information in Planning Green Infrastructure in Luanda, Angola

Framing Green and Blue Infrastructure

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