Overview
- Provides a step-by-step methodology for adopting ecosystem services approach in spatial planning
- Adopts the Strategic Environmental Assessment as valid support implementing ecosystem services in defining planning strategies, especially in evaluating alternative scenarios
- Defines a procedure to evaluate the alteration of ecosystem services capacity due to land use/land cover changes using an ecological balance and to promote the adoption of new planning parameters for the transformation areas
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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About this book
The book investigates the relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and spatial planning, and explores potential means of integrating the two concepts to support the decision-making process. In addition, it presents case studies demonstrating the outcomes, limitations, opportunities and further new developments in ES assessment/mapping for planning support. Then it describes the “Restart from Ecosystem Services” (RES) methodology, which is aimed at integrating ES into the planning process using an ecological balance, and at promoting new planning parameters for the transformation areas. RES ensures the inclusion of ES in planning processes using the incremental measures of limiting, mitigating and compensating soil sealing and land take process promoting operational strategies in applying it. The implementation of RES is associated with strategic environmental assessment and provides valuable support in the definition of strategies across the entire planning process, especially for the evaluation of alternative scenarios.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecosystem Services for Spatial Planning
Book Subtitle: Innovative Approaches and Challenges for Practical Applications
Authors: Silvia Ronchi
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90185-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90184-8Published: 20 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07955-0Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90185-5Published: 12 July 2018
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 152
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Environmental Policy