Urbangaiamanaging urban biodiversity and green infraestructure to increase city resilence

  1. Juan F. Martínez‐Murillo 1
  2. Paloma Hueso‐González 1
  3. Carla Ferreira 2
  4. Sander Jacobs 3
  5. Michael Leone 3
  6. Ieva Misiune 4
  7. Daniel Depellegrin 4
  8. Paulo Pereira 4
  9. Jörg Priess 5
  10. Nina Schwarz 6
  11. Julia Palliwoda 5
  12. Antonio Ferreira 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Málaga
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    Universidad de Málaga

    Málaga, España

    ROR https://ror.org/036b2ww28

  2. 2 Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra
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    Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra

    Coímbra, Portugal

    ROR https://ror.org/01n8x4993

  3. 3 Institute of Nature and Forest Research (Bélgica)
  4. 4 Mykolas Romeris University (Lituania)
  5. 5 Helmholtz‐Centre for Environmental Research (Alemania)
  6. 6 University of Twente (Países Bajos)
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Book:
Naturaleza, territorio y ciudad en un mundo global

Publisher: Asociación de Geográfos Españoles

Year of publication: 2017

Pages: 502-511

Congress: Congreso de Geógrafos Españoles (25. 2017. Madrid)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

Global population mainly lives in cities posing great pressure on this kind of environments. Increasing population needs resilient and healthy ecosystems, in order to foster biodiversity and maintain human wellbeing. Urbanisation reduces ecological connectivity and ecosystems are heavily affected. This decreases ecological resilience, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity, in turn affecting the supply of ecosystem services quality and quantity. Cities are complex socio‐ ecological systems and the needs to improve well‐being are highly variable. The demand for ecosystem services is therefore equally diverse and context‐dependent. Green‐Blue Infrastructures (GBI) are hypothesised to increase ecological connectivity and quality, improve biodiversity and functioning, deliver multiple ecosystem services and direct improvements of human wellbeing. GBIs have an indirect well‐being effect by mitigating the negative urbanisation cascade. They are defined as sets of ecosystems, linked into a spatially coherent system through flows of organisms, and interacting with the landscape matrix. This project aims to contribute to the socio‐ecological knowledge based on critical features of GBIs assessed in four European cities, and provides tools for guiding their establishment, management and evaluation through an innovative two‐way approach: citizen science including spatial data mobilisation, and the transdisciplinary valuation and co‐creation of GBIs by a range of stakeholders.

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