Urban Green Infrastructure in Sustainable Development
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 April 2023) | Viewed by 5729
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable development; urban development; spatial planning; urban resilience; green areas; urban greenery
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2. Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Technical University of Moldova, 2004 Chisinau, Moldova
3. National Institute for Research and Development in Constructions, Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial, Development URBAN-INCERC, 21652 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: environmetrics; systems ecology; spatial ecology; geostatistics; urban ecology; landscape ecology; land cover and use; land cover and use changes; sustainable spatial development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The key feature of green infrastructure can be found in its definition provided by the European Commission and relates to the fact that it is ‘strategically planned and managed’. This feature indicates that the term does not refer to all types of urban nature, although all provide ecosystem services, but specifically to those that are planned. Ecosystem services are essential for understanding the contribution of urban green infrastructure to the health and welfare of urban inhabitants and, implicitly, to sustainable urban development, including its resilience to various types of threats. This is why planning for urban green infrastructure is essential for sustainable urban planning. The urban planning process, and particularly its relation to urban green infrastructure, is crucial to turning the vicious circle that leads, through the loss of urban green infrastructure, to increasingly limited and poorer quality ecosystem services and, consequently, to an unsustainable future, into a virtuous circle, where well-planned urban green infrastructure yields more and higher quality ecosystem services and contributes to welfare and sustainability. All these topics and links are at the core of this Special Issue. We look forward to submissions exploring relevant topics, including but not limited to:
- Theoretical developments related to the urban planning–urban green infrastructure–urban sustainability nexus.
- Comparative studies analyzing the good practices of planning urban green infrastructure for ensuring urban sustainability.
- Analyses of the effects of changes in the urban green infrastructure on urban sustainability.
- The identification of the drivers of change in urban green infrastructure.
- The importance of the connectivity of urban green infrastructure and its connections with regional green infrastructure.
- Approaches to planning urban green infrastructure at different spatial scales.
- The role of green infrastructure in building the resilience of cities to various types of threats.
- The impact of green infrastructure on the health and well-being of urban residents.
Dr. Lidia Mierzejewska
Prof. Dr. Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban and spatial planning
- connectivity
- urban sustainability and resilience
- land cover and use changes
- environmental planning
- ecosystem services
- urban greenery
- health and well-being
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