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).

Noriko Akita, Ayda Alehashemi, Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Meryem Atik, Chiara Baldacchini, Luca Battisti, et al. (2021). Urban Services to Ecosystems - Green Infrastructure Benefits from the Landscape to the Urban Scale [10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2].

Urban Services to Ecosystems - Green Infrastructure Benefits from the Landscape to the Urban Scale

Riccardo Guarino;Manfredi Leone;
2021-09-01

Abstract

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).
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Green Infrastructure, Ecological Networks, Human-made habitats, Eco-building, Holistic Design, Vegetation Science, Sustainable Cities, Hay transfer, Seeds sowing, Green roof vegetation, Ecological compensation
978-3-030-75928-5
978-3-030-75929-2
Noriko Akita, Ayda Alehashemi, Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Meryem Atik, Chiara Baldacchini, Luca Battisti, et al. (2021). Urban Services to Ecosystems - Green Infrastructure Benefits from the Landscape to the Urban Scale [10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2].
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