Urban Services to Ecosystems: Green Infrastructure Benefits from the Landscape to the Urban Scale (1st ed. 2021) (Future City #17)

By: Chiara Catalano and Maria Beatrice Andreucci and Riccardo Guarino and Francesca Bretzel and Manfredi Leone and Salvatore Pasta

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Synopsis: The aim of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary research in the field of green infrastructure design, construction and ecology. The main core of the volume is constituted by contributions dealing with green infrastructure, vegetation science, nature-based solutions and sustainable urban development. The green infrastructure and its ecosystem services, indeed, are gaining space in both political agendas and academic research. However, the attention is focused on the services that nature is giving for free to and for human health and survival. What if we start to see things from another perspective? Our actions shall converge for instance to turn man-made environment like cities from heterotrophic to autotrophic ecosystems. From landscape ecology to urban and building design, like bricks of a wall, from the small scale to the bigger landscape scale via ecological networks and corridors, we should start answering these questions: what are the services that are we offering to Nature? What are we improving? How to implement our actions? This book contains three Open Access chapters, which are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030759292
Related ISBNs:: 9783030759285
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 10/06/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Chiara Catalano
Edited by:: Maria Beatrice Andreucci
Edited by:: Riccardo Guarino
Edited by:: Francesca Bretzel
Edited by:: Manfredi Leone
Edited by:: Salvatore Pasta