Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure: Perspectives from Spatial Planning in Italy

✍ Scribed by Andrea Arcidiacono, Silvia Ronchi

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Series: Cities and Nature
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book analyses the relationship between ecosystem services, green and blue infrastructures (GBI) and spatial planning in Italy. It provides insights on the opportunities and challenges in the adoption of an ecosystem services (ES)-based approach for Spatial Planning exploring methods and techniques for the design of GBI strategies.

Nowadays, there is an advance in ES knowledge and a recognition of the benefits of GBI for the quality of human life and biodiversity conservation. The main challenge remains how this knowledge could be integrated into the planning process and how it could guide the decision-making process towards sustainable development for contemporary cities.

The book collects innovative Italian experiences providing important considerations for operationalizing the ES concept and highlighting different disciplinary attitudes and methodological approaches with the common goal to enhance human well-being.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Challenges for Contemporary Spatial Planning in Italy. Towards a New Paradigm (Andrea Arcidiacono, Silvia Ronchi)....Pages 1-16
Urban Green Infrastructure: Opportunities and Challenges at the European Scale (Grazia Zulian, Julie Raynal, Rayka Hauser, Joachim Maes)....Pages 17-28
The Green City: From a Vision to a Concept from National to European Perspectives (Jürgen H. Breuste)....Pages 29-43
The Inertial Forces of Ecological Planning: How Planning Resists Conceptual Change (Kimmo Lapintie)....Pages 45-57
The Project of the Green Infrastructure in Lombardy Region. A Resilient Spatial Structure for the Landscape Plan (Andrea Arcidiacono, Silvia Ronchi)....Pages 59-71
A Green Infrastructure in the Guidelines to Limit Land Consumption of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Landscape Plan (Elisabetta Peccol, Mirko Pellegrini, Mauro Pascolini)....Pages 73-85
The Landscape Planning and the Green Infrastructure in Campania Region (Emanuela Coppola)....Pages 87-100
The Green Infrastructure Instrument for the Metropolitan Area of Naples: Experimentations Through Local Planning (Francesco Domenico Moccia, Antonia Arena)....Pages 101-111
Green Infrastructure and Local Planning Processes: A Study Concerning the Metropolitan Context of Cagliari (Sabrina Lai, Federica Leone, Corrado Zoppi)....Pages 113-125
Ecosystem Services Integration into Local Policies and Strategies in the City of Bologna: Analysis of the State of the Art and Recommendations for Future Development (Claudia de Luca, John Martin, Simona Tondelli)....Pages 127-139
The New Urban Plan of Rescaldina Municipality. An Experience for Improving Ecosystem Services Provision (Silvia Ronchi, Andrea Arcidiacono, Laura Pogliani)....Pages 141-152
Identifying Ecosystem Service Hotspots to Support Urban Planning in Trento (Davide Geneletti, Chiara Cortinovis)....Pages 153-165
Mapping Ecosystem Services, Disservices, and Ecological Requirements to Enhance Urban Forest Planning and Management in Padova (Chiara Cortinovis, Claudia Alzetta, Davide Geneletti)....Pages 167-179
Messina. Green and Blue Infrastructures for the Re-urbanisation of the City (Carlo Gasparrini, Anna Terracciano)....Pages 181-200
Green Texture: Nature and Reuse in the Prato Operative Plan Legislation (Francesco Caporaso, Pamela Bracciotti, Antonella Perretta)....Pages 201-212
Green Infrastructure and Landscape Planning in a Sustainable and Resilient Perspective (Angioletta Voghera, Benedetta Giudice)....Pages 213-224
Lessons from Italian Experiences: Bottlenecks, New Challenges and Opportunities (Silvia Ronchi, Andrea Arcidiacono)....Pages 225-236
Back Matter ....Pages 237-239

✦ Subjects

Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Transportation; Urban Ecology