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1. Case 04 - Integration of a Green Infrastructure Strategy into Urban Planning: The revision of the city's Master Plan, a case-study of Vitoria-Gasteiz Spain

   ... (actual surface area: 645 ha) now comprise a system of urban green spaces: five parks and a further two are planned. It contains ... In different intervention scenarios (related to management systems, plant selection, irrigation requirements , mowing ...). 2. ...

   Wijnja - 07/10/2016 - 16:13

2. Green Infrastructure

   ... by various disciplines (e.g. land conservation , urban design and landscape architecture), sometimes with substantially ... concept is mainly approached as a planned network of living systems affecting the quality of life of urban population (Defra and Natural ...

   Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 14:41

3. Sustainable Ecosystem Management

   ... has been reinforced by the concept of ‘socio-ecological systems’, which recognises that humans and their social and political systems ... Cultural ecosystems , such as agricultural fields and urban areas, have been transformed completely by human activity. They are ...

   Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 16:47

4. Case studies

   ... river basin management, coastal zone management, and urban and regional planning, covering a range of social-ecological systems including fresh water bodies, coastal zones, woodlands, grasslands and ...

   Wijnja - 15/11/2018 - 08:57

5. IRIDRA Srl (ITALY)

   ... and works supervision of water and wastewater management systems (e.g. rainwater collection, grey-water treatment and reuse, wastewater ... over 300 CW systems to face several problems (domestic, urban and industrial wastewater, landfill leachate, extensive systems for ...

   Wijnja - 11/10/2013 - 15:21

6. Scenario building and its application

   ... expected consequences on society and environment (or from a systems perspective – feedbacks between the components of complex ... different sectors of the economy, lifestyles, demography, urban and rural areas etc., several of them with potentially strong impacts ...

   Wijnja - 12/05/2017 - 16:54

7. Ecosystem services and human health

   ... as the critical infrastructure for human health and health systems (see, for example, CBD & WHO 2015; also UNEP, 2014). Whilst there are ... greenspace can have mental and physical benefits for some urban populations (e.g. through “green care” activities), causative ...

   Wijnja - 15/02/2017 - 21:29

8. Nature-based solutions

   ... leaves as a solution to problems of wear in mechanical systems, and so promoted the search for ‘nature-based solutions’ to ... engineering approaches used as nature-based solutions to urban water management problems (e.g. Grant, 2012). From 2009, the term ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 15/05/2017 - 13:35

9. Ecosystem Service Trade-offs and Synergies

   ... and are important for the resilience of social-ecological systems (Raudsepp-Hearne et al., 2010; García-Llorente et al., 2012; Castro et ... demand: A landscape-scale spatial analysis. Landscape and Urban Planning 132: 102-110. Elmqvist T. et al. (2011): Managing ...

   Wijnja - 15/02/2017 - 20:59

10. Students in Brazil test Ecosystem Service Mapping App developed by OpenNESS

    ... at UNESP (Rio Claro, Brazil) about 'Socio-Environmental Systems', students have been testing the smartphone-based ecosystem ... demands for mainly cultural ecosystem services in urban and rural contexts at case study 'Opportunities for the ...

    Wijnja - 01/10/2014 - 16:20 - 0 comments

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