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Green Infrastructure to Improve Ecosystem Services in the Landscape Urban Regeneration

2017; IOP Publishing; Volume: 245; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/1757-899x/245/8/082044

1757-899X

Teodoro Semeraro, Roberta Aretano, Alessandro Pomes,

Urban Agriculture and Sustainability

The concept of Green Infrastructure (GI) emphasises the quality as well as quantity of urban, peri-urban greens spaces and natural areas, their multifunctional role, and the importance of interconnections between habitats. If a Green Infrastructure is proactively planned, developed, and maintained it has the potential to guide urban development by providing a framework for economic growth and nature conservation. GI includes parks and reserves, sporting fields, riparian areas like stream and river banks, greenways and trails, community gardens, street trees, and nature conservation areas, as well as less conventional spaces such as green walls, green alleyways, and cemeteries. Today we have to face new challenges about increasing energy use, decreasing water resources, limited spaces and ecological preservation. This problem must be solved in a sustainable way using innovative GI that combine technology with landscape design by enhancing ecosystem services provision.