Promoting Ecosystem and Human Health in Urban Areas Using Green Infrastructure a Literature Review

The final decades take seen a major shift in the planning and development of ecosystem and landscape direction in Europe. First of all, in line with international developments, the life-support services of ecosystems accept come up to the fore through the awarding of the concept of "ecosystem services". Secondly, drawing on the principles of landscape ecology linkages between ecosystems are beingness stressed through the concept of "ecological networks". Thirdly, there is increasing recognition of the beneficial human relationship between admission to greenish space and improved public "health and well-beingness". These services and relationships are existence linked together in both academic literature and policy do in what is termed the Greenish Infrastructure (GI) approach. It is argued that GI networks are discernible at different scales, and across urban, peri-urban and rural landscapes. Furthermore, GI is considered equally supportive of ecological processes whilst simultaneously contributing to better human wellness and well-being. Moreover, especially in urban regions, GI is being placed at the aforementioned level as other essential urban infrastructure. Recognising these developments the authors have devised an updated conceptual framework for the development, management, and analysis of GI networks by focusing on contemporary drivers nested together at the territorial level and with a prominent role for temporal considerations. The latter has hitherto been only weakly presented in the GI discourse. Development of the conceptual model has been informed by reference to examples drawn from across Europe. Finally, directions are provided for future research, and for developing and delivering GI in the emerging context of ecosystem services and homo well-beingness.

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Green Infrastructure (GI), Ecosystem Services, Territorial Cohesion, Urban Forestry, Homo Well-being, European Urban Regions, Urban interface

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Lafortezza R, Davies C, Sanesi M, Konijnendijk CC (2013). Greenish Infrastructure equally a tool to support spatial planning in European urban regions. iForest 6: 102-108. - doi: x.3832/ifor0723-006

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