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Gobernanza inclusiva en la economía circular comunitaria: un análisis bibliográfico sistemático

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This systematic bibliographic analysis examines Inclusive Territorial Governance (ITG) in the context of community-based circular economy, highlighting its positive effects on environmental management, resilience, and social cohesion, despite institutional limitations, and emphasizing its role in promoting sustainability and environmental justice.

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Governance faces growing challenges resulting from accelerated urbanization, socioeconomic inequality, and climate change, which demand a rethinking of territorial management approaches without compromising sustainability. In this context, Inclusive Territorial Governance (ITG) is a strategic approach that promotes horizontal relationships, equitable participation, and social cohesion, especially in historically marginalized communities. This study conducts a systematic bibliographic analysis aimed at identifying theoretical and methodological approaches, effects, challenges, and opportunities associated with ITG, with particular attention to its linkage with community-based circular economy. The findings highlight its positive impact on environmental management, green infrastructure, and territorial resilience. Despite institutional and regulatory limitations, ITG represents a pathway to strengthen self-management, promote sustainable productive models, and foster environmental justice. In summary, ITG offers a comprehensive framework for addressing socio-environmental challenges through inclusion and sustainability.

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  • publish.UP (University of Potsdam)
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Urbanization and agricultural land use are two of the main drivers of global changes with effects on ecosystem functions and human wellbeing. Green Infrastructure is a new approach in spatial planning contributing to sustainable urban development, and to address urban challenges, such as biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, green economy development, and social cohesion. Because the research focus has been mainly on open green space structures, such as parks, urban forest, green building, street green, but neglected spatial and functional potentials of utilizable agricultural land, this thesis aims at fill this gap. This cumulative thesis addresses how agricultural land in urban and peri-urban landscapes can contribute to the development of urban green infrastructure as a strategy to promote sustainable urban development. Therefore, a number of different research approaches have been applied. First, a quantitative, GIS-based modeling approach looked at spatial potentials, addressing the heterogeneity of peri-urban landscape that defines agricultural potentials and constraints. Second, a participatory approach was applied, involving stakeholder opinions to evaluate multiple urban functions and benefits. Finally, an evidence synthesis was conducted to assess the current state of research on evidence to support future policy making at different levels. The results contribute to the conceptual understanding of urban green infrastructures as a strategic spatial planning approach that incorporates inner-urban utilizable agricultural land and the agriculturally dominated landscape at the outer urban fringe. It highlights the proposition that the linkage of peri-urban farmland with the green infrastructure concept can contribute to a network of multifunctional green spaces to provide multiple benefits to the urban system and to successfully address urban challenges. Four strategies are introduced for spatial planning with the contribution of peri-urban farmland to a strategically planned multifunctional network, namely the connecting, the productive, the integrated, and the adapted way. Finally, this thesis sheds light on the opportunities that arise from the integration of the peri- urban farmland in the green infrastructure concept to support transformation towards a more sustainable urban development. In particular, the inherent core planning principle of multifunctionality endorses the idea of co-benefits that are considered crucial to trigger transformative processes. This work concludes that the linkage of peri-urban farmland with the green infrastructure concept is a promising action field for the development of new pathways for urban transformation towards sustainable urban development. Along with these outcomes, attention is drawn to limitations that remain to be addressed by future research, especially the identification of further mechanisms required to support policy integration at all levels.

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Using Multifunctional GI to Address Resilience in Cities
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Cities are currently facing numerous challenges and uncertainties - climate change, aging infrastructure, growing urbanization - with many turning towards green infrastructure (GI) as a possible solution. Perhaps the most common application of GI is for stormwater management, though some cities are also hoping to use GI to combat climate change and urban heat islands, recharge groundwater supplies, and restore habitat for native fish and wildlife. Though many municipalities are using GI, few have a comprehensive vision for GI or consider all the possible benefits when planning, siting, and designing new sites. As a result, efforts remain largely uncoordinated and disjointed, with many missed opportunities. This is partly because the exact benefits of GI remain largely unquantified. Without knowing what to expect, cities are hindered in their efforts to integrate GI into broader goals and coordinate across programs. To address this need, this dissertation adopts a mixed method approach to address some of the knowledge gaps surrounding GI's co-benefits. Specifically, statistical modeling, participatory engagement, and complex, multi-agent modeling are used to more clearly define and measure the ES available from various GI sites. For all efforts, New York City was used as a case study, although the methods used here are applicable to all cities. First, this research focused on quantifying the benefit of a single ES, mitigation of environmental disturbances, during Hurricane Sandy. This is a service often attributed to GI, but poorly understood in urban settings. Despite the numerous anecdotes that stated GI had protected people and property from the worst of Sandy, results of this research suggest GI is limited in its ability to provide protection during extreme coastal events. The second part of this research used stakeholder interviews and surveys to quantify the value of all ES from multiple GI types. Results suggest that NYC could get more value from its GI investments through minor changes to program, e.g. including more community gardens and refocusing messaging away from stormwater management, a services New Yorkers do not value. Lastly, this research used an agent model to simulate two different approaches to greening in NYC and measure physical, social, and economic consequences of GI looking specifically at how stormwater capture, public approval, and the economic value of these new investments will change over time. Simulations indicate that NYC is capable of meeting, and even exceeding, the stormwater management potential of its current program by taking a more multifunctional approach to GI and trying to address community needs first, and stormwater second. The results suggest that integrating GI with other initiatives, including improving resilience, should improve the co-benefits available for New Yorkers, including stormwater management services. The approaches taken in this research pilot methodologies for quantifying and calibrating the value of benefits of GI according to local preferences and demonstrates, through two separate modeling efforts, that GI is most useful when addressing multiple concerns as opposed to providing a single service (e.g. mitigation of environmental disturbances or stormwater management). Taken together, the results underscore the idea that GI can provide multiple services to cities, and that these benefits can be maximized through a more comprehensive approach to GI. As cities look to increase their resilience to the many challenges of the 21st century, GI can play a significant role in achieving those goals. However, to do so, cities will need to find a way to coordinate GI efforts across programs to get the most out of their investments. GI is most useful as a tool for building resilience when it is multifunctional and integrated into all aspects of urban planning.

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  • Abayomi Abraham Adesina + 2 more

This study explores the integration of green infrastructure (GI) into urban planning as a strategic approach to sustainable development. With the dual challenges of urbanization and climate change, the research aims to assess the multifaceted impact of GI on urban ecosystems, focusing on environmental, social, and economic benefits. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the study combines a comprehensive literature review with case study analysis across diverse urban settings to identify best practices and challenges in GI implementation. Key findings highlight the significant role of GI in enhancing urban biodiversity, improving air and water quality, and mitigating urban heat island effects, thereby contributing to the resilience and sustainability of urban environments. Socially, GI is found to improve public health, foster community cohesion, and enhance the aesthetic value of urban areas. Economically, the presence of GI is associated with increased property values, energy savings, and job creation. Despite these benefits, challenges such as financial constraints, policy gaps, and maintenance issues are identified as barriers to effective GI implementation. The study concludes with strategic recommendations for urban planners, policymakers, and community leaders, emphasizing the need for holistic planning approaches, intersectoral collaboration, community engagement, and policy incentives to promote GI. Future research directions are suggested to address gaps in understanding the long-term impacts of GI, innovative technologies for GI management, and the social equity implications of green space distribution. This research underscores the critical importance of integrating GI into urban planning to achieve sustainable, resilient, and livable cities. Keywords: Green Infrastructure, Urban Planning, Sustainable Development, Ecosystem.

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Assessing green infrastructure as an effective strategy to help cities to build resilience to climate change
  • Oct 1, 2015
  • Maria Raquel Catalano De Sousa + 1 more

The increase of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere due to human activities such as fossil fuel burning, deforestation and land-use changes, is causing increases in surface temperature. From the pre-industrial era to the current days, the carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentration has increased from 280 ppm to 398.17 ppm (NOAA, 2015) and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2014) globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data show a warming of 0.85°C per decade over the period 1880 to 2012. Under higher temperatures, the atmosphere has a higher capacity to hold water vapor (Horton et al, 2010), increasing the time interval between rain events and the magnitude of precipitation especially in extreme events. Thus, at higher temperatures the frequency at which precipitations occur tends to decrease while the intensity of such precipitations tends to increase. In the urban environment, where typically the majority of surfaces are impermeable, the impact of climate change tends to exacerbate the occurrence and the intensity of floods as well as droughts and heat waves. Within this context, there has been much discussion about strategies that could effectively help cities to reduce their CO₂ emissions to the atmosphere (mitigation strategies ) and to adapt to the impacts caused by climate change (adaptation strategies ). Regarding the impacts caused by urban floods, a decentralized approach, known as green infrastructure (GI) has been proposed as an alternative to the traditional concrete infrastructures (gray infrastructures [GR]). GI sustains, or attempts to replicate pre-development site hydrology in the post-development condition (Montalto, 2007), taking advantage of natural processes like infiltration, interception and evapotranspiration to manage stormwater (Davis et al, 2012). Beside capturing precipitation and reducing the amount of runoff that is convened to the sewer systems, GI can provide other benefits such as reduction of heat island effects, increased air and water quality, carbon sequestration, expansion of recreational spaces, increased habitat for flora and fauna among others (Wise et al, 2010). Because of their capacity to deliver multiple benefits, GI has been proposed as a sustainable alternative for cities to mitigate and adapt to climate change (Mason & Montalto, 2014; Union European, 2010). Several government grants have been launched recently to focus on the development, application and evaluation of methodologies for integrating GI into urban spaces as adaptation efforts to climate change (DOI, 2014; NOAA, 2014). Nevertheless, the body of literature that assesses GI as an effective strategy to help cities to build resilience to climate change remains small. For instance, the performance of designed urban green spaces under climate change is still poorly understood. In addition, the comparison between potential benefits of GI applied to urban watershed scale with the environmental costs associated with their installation and maintenance is still poorly supported by research (Pataki et al 2011). In order to better explore these research gaps, this thesis aims to evaluate GI as a means of reducing climate risks in the urban northeast environment. To reach out this main objective, we propose three different hypotheses: Hypothesis #1: Green infrastructure can reduce GHG emissions associated with urban drainage infrastructure · Compared to grey (stormwater management) infrastructure strategies, GI releases lesser GHG emissions over its entire useful life Hypothesis #2: GI can help cities adapt to extreme precipitation · GI facilities can significantly reduce urban runoff even during extreme precipitation Hypothesis #3: GI vegetation is not vulnerable to climate change, especially to floods and droughts · The risk of plant mortality within the expected envelope of climate variability (floods and droughts) is insignificant. The three hypotheses, as well as, a preliminary chapter that introduces the thesis topic, are presented separately in a scientific journal format. Chapter 1 reviews literature about the leading climate risks facing the Northeast Region (NE) of Unites States of America (USA), while provides an overview of the ongoing GI initiatives in the USA and their potential value for reducing vulnerability to the key climate risks faced by the urban northeast region. Chapter 2 addresses hypothesis #1 and includes a study conducted at the watershed scale level that used life cycle assessment techniques to compare the carbon footprint of a green and a grey strategy to reduce combined sewer overflow occurrence (CSO) in a highly urbanized watershed. Chapter 3 addresses hypothesis #2 via an investigation at the site scale that evaluated the performance of a bioretention installed in an urban watershed during extreme events including Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Irene. Chapter 4 addresses hypothesis #3 and presents an experiment conducted in a greenhouse that evaluated the response of two species commonly used in vegetated GI sites to consecutive periods of floods and drought. This thesis finalizes with a general conclusion section for all the chapters.

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  • 10.1073/pnas.1920490117
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  • Dec 26, 2019
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Isabelle Anguelovski + 9 more

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  • 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.03.025
Introducing nature-based solutions into urban policy – facts and gaps. Case study of Poznań
  • Apr 8, 2019
  • Land Use Policy
  • Iwona Zwierzchowska + 4 more

Cities often don’t appreciate the benefits of green infrastructure (GI) enough. To recognise the extent to which green infrastructure and nature-based solutions (NbS) are present in the urban policy, we conducted a review of planning, strategic and programming documents of Poznań City as a Case Study. The study is aimed at 1) diagnosing of current position NbS in the tasks and directions of planning, strategic and programming documents; 2) characteristic of activities related to NbS according to the form of human-nature interaction; 3) determining the potential of including NbS in the local policy; 4) identifying the role of NbS in facing 4 main challenges in urban policy: resilience and climate change adaptation, health and well-being, social cohesion, economic development potential. The results show that a significant number of actions focus on GI changes towards its multifunctionality and better quality, while there are not many actions towards supporting citizens in using it. Also, despite urban pressure, new green spaces are still planned to be created. The role of NbS within GI in urban resilience is well recognised. Yet, the adaptation to climate change has gained a low priority so far. Linkages between GI and the wellbeing of inhabitants are well understood. However, the possibility to build and strengthen social cohesion based on GI is rather marginally noticed. The least recognised is the influence of NbS on the economic development potential. It is an area that still needs to be investigated to bring evidence in this field. We conclude that to support large-scale, nature-based solution implementation in cities, the crucial step is to bring them into the local urban agenda. An evaluation of urban policy documents based on the presented approach can serve as a guideline for identifying gaps and potentials for NbS inclusion. As a result, it can help the better organisation of urban policy and harmonisation of different sectors through NbS.

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Residents’ understanding of the role of green infrastructure for climate change adaptation in Hangzhou, China
  • Mar 16, 2015
  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Jason A Byrne + 2 more

Residents’ understanding of the role of green infrastructure for climate change adaptation in Hangzhou, China

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  • 10.1080/16874048.2024.2311521
Constructed wetlands nature-based solutions to enhance urban resilience in Egyptian cities
  • Feb 8, 2024
  • HBRC Journal
  • Nermen M Matter + 1 more

Cities worldwide face resilience challenges as climate risks interact with rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, poverty, and Socioeconomic inequality. This leads to the social, physical, and economic collapse of cities and their systems. Over time, urban resilience challenges are expected to increase, driven by urbanization, land use, and climate change. It is for this reason that the concept of urban resilience is increasingly attracting the attention of governments, and urban planners. Gray infrastructure is not always suitable for profitability, resilience, or sustainability. Now more than ever, green infrastructure is recognized as a nature-based solution (NBS) that plays a significant role in addressing resilience challenges in urban areas. These solutions can be applied through spatial measurements and parameters in and around the city. Constructed wetlands (Cws) are artificial imitations of natural wetlands, one of the most biologically diverse natural ecosystems, and in addition to aesthetics, It provides an effective model for resilient environmental engineering solutions as a low-cost and easy-to-operate alternative to traditional urban management systems. Consequently, the main objective of this research was to define criteria for integrating constructed wetlands (Cws) into the urban landscape as nature-based solutions (NBS) and address the limitations and maximize advantages as well as contribute to replicate best practices of constructed wetlands (Cws) in different Zones (Desert, River’s floodplain, coastal) in Egyptian cities for enhancing the urban resilience.

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