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Valuation challenges of urban green infrastructure

open access: yesEcocycles, 2022
The current article provides an overview of the benefits provided by urban green infrastructure (GI), as well as the application of the concept of total economic value and the relevance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Afterward, environmental valuation methods that can be used to calculate the benefits in monetary units are ...
Noémi Csigéné Nagypál
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Home gardens can be more important than other urban green infrastructure for mental well-being during COVID-19 pandemics. [PDF]

open access: yesUrban For Urban Green, 2021
The current COVID-19 pandemics is a major threat to human populations. The disease has rapidly spread, causing mass hospitalization and the loss of millions of people mainly in urban areas which are hubs for contagion.
Marques P   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Changes and Characteristics of Green Infrastructure Network Based on Spatio-Temporal Priority

open access: yesLand, 2022
With advancements in urbanization, natural lands are constantly being encroached upon by artificial impervious surfaces, leading to serious ecosystem damage.
Xifan Chen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizen Willingness to Pay for the Implementation of Urban Green Infrastructure in the Pilot Sponge Cities in China

open access: yesForests, 2023
Urban green infrastructure has been widely used to in cities to solve stormwater problems caused by extreme weather events and urbanization around the world.
Jingyi Zhang   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

History of Seoul’s Parks and Green Space Policies: Focusing on Policy Changes in Urban Development

open access: yesLand, 2022
Globally, urban areas have been expanding rapidly since industrialization. In South Korea, urban policy has evolved according to urban development, but the change in parks and green spaces policy for a pleasant urban environment is insignificant.
Jeonghee Choi, Gunwoo Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Urban green infrastructure in Nigeria: A review

open access: yesScientific African, 2021
Urban green infrastructure is critical to sustainable cities and society, especially in rapidly urbanising developing countries. This paper provides a review of studies on urban greening in Nigeria.
Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stewardship and green infrastructure in England. Planning perspectives informed through an investigation of urban green infrastructure

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2023
The aim of this study is to explore the relationships and perspectives of stakeholders involved in the stewardship of ‘urban green infrastructure’ in England.
C. Davies, Rocío Santo-Tomás Muro
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing the contribution of urban green spaces in green infrastructure strategy planning for urban ecosystem conditions and services

open access: yesSustainable cities and society, 2021
Maintaining ecosystem services is a key adaption option towards sustainable cities and adaptive societies in securing citizens’ health and wellbeing. This research investigates the contribution of using urban green space components as the basic units in ...
O. Liu, A. Russo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Green Infrastructure and Urban Vacancies: Land Cover and Natural Environment as Predictors of Vacant Land in Austin, Texas

open access: yesLand, 2023
Urban vacancies have been a concern for neighborhood distress and economic decline and have gained more recent attention as potential green infrastructure is known to benefit communities in diverse ways.
Young-Jae Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Planning Green Infrastructure as a Source of Urban and Regional Resilience – Towards Institutional Challenges [PDF]

open access: yesUrbani Izziv, 2015
Green infrastructure programmes and strategies are regarded as planning opportunities to promote sustainable and resilient urban development. However, the discourse about green infrastructure policy and its effectiveness has pointed to the limited ...
Paulina SCHIAPPACASSE, Bernhard MÜLLER
doaj   +1 more source

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