Urban green infrastructure as a tool for controlling the resilience of urban sprawl

Abstract

This paper is aimed to analyze the existing relationships and controlling functions between the urban green infrastructures on the resilience of the urban sprawl. The analysis begins questioning whether urban sprawl sustainable growth can be controlled after achieving urban supported by urban green infrastructure. The analytic method used is based on developing a conceptual and theoretical framework of reference to review the literature on the main variables of the research: Green infrastructure, resilience, and urban sprawl. It is concluded that while it is difficult to find linear causality in a direct relationship among the variables of the analysis, it is supported by the existence of more holistic connectivity leading to the controlling of the urban sprawl. The analysis suggests that a holistic approach is required to build urban resilience based on green infrastructure by addressing a fuller range of ecosystem disturbances and disasters, to create the outcomes that develop the environmental and ecological benefits of urban spectrum of ecosystem disturbances and disasters, to create the outcomes that develop the environmental and ecological benefits of urban sprawl.1 3 socioeconomic development. Urban biodiversity is decreasing over the years due to population growth, land-use changes, climate change, invasive species, etc. Urban land use, environmental and climate changes are driven by the densification of population expansion and development and are placing mounting pressure on urban biodiversity, ecosystem services, and resilience, leading to dysfunctional urban sprawl.The concept of ecological resilience is emerging in the middle of the challenges posed by climate change and the growing urbanization processes. Urban sprawl is related to the socioecosystem is complex and unpredictable ecological resilience because it includes the interaction of the social, psychological, physical, structural, engineering, natural, environmental and other resilient systems to build up and influence each other on the resilient city development.Socioecosystems and green infrastructure provide benefits in ecosystem services to improve human health and critical environmental and socioeconomic services. Environmental performance can integrate green infrastructure design, biodiversity, and ecosystem services into the green projects aimed to achieve economic and environmental benefits in energy, water, air quality, transportation and logistics, waste and materials, climate, bioeconomics, etc.Urban green spaces and infrastructure bring economic social and environmental benefits such as the mitigation of climate change and heat island effect, reduction and absorption of pollutants, maintenance of natural resources and landscape, increasing the attractiveness and beauty of urban landscape, connection between nature and sense of place, improvement of quality of life, etc.Green infrastructures and spaces offer benefits addressing multiple challenges to become economically viable for urban recipients properly recognized and quantified....

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