Urban green infrastructure: a detailed approach to ecosystem services

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10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_22How to use a DOI?

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urban planning; ecosystem services; protected areas

Abstract

Urban green infrastructure (GI) and protected areas (PAs) particularly are providing an extraordinary set of ecosystem services, but ecological and social components of urban livability contradict each other due to limited space and various demands of stakeholders. Definitions of regulating (R), institutional (I) and cultural (C) values were established to conduct a comparative spatial analysis of ecosystem services (ES). Three highly transformed case-study PAs (Izmaylovo park, Setun river valley reserve, Tyoply Stan reserve, with areas of 1600, 700 and 330 ha) on the outskirts of Moscow were assessed and mapped through on-site surveys of ecosystem degradation, public interviews, analytic hierarchy process, qualitative and quantitative analysis of legislative acts, modelling of 5 key ES. Fragmented and deteriorated river valleys are strongly exposed to human pressure, resulting in a relatively low ES supply (E-S = -3.9). The large green core of Izmaylovo park tends to retain less disturbed ecosystems, especially black alder forests on floodplains, and provides regulating services at a slightly larger extent than cultural ones (E-S =  + 1.1, possible values vary from -20 to + 20). Despite the higher connectivity of habitats, Izmaylovo and Tyoply Stan PAs are still vulnerable to severe adverse transformations. Gaps in spatial planning, defined as zones of insufficient and excessive regulations on human activities, were revealed, with the first type strongly prevailing (I-R = -1.9 within Setun valley). The devised workflow may be used to assess the ES of protected areas in other cities and GI patches, as well as their value.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vitalii Kriukov
AU  - Elena Golubeva
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/08/26
TI  - Urban green infrastructure: a detailed approach to ecosystem services
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Nature for Innovative and Inclusive Urban Regeneration (NATiURB 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 267
EP  - 282
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_22
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_22
ID  - Kriukov2024
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