Abstract
This article aims to analyze research trends on the role played by green infrastructures as a tool seeking to address current environmental challenges, such as climate change, that put human well-being at risk. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis was used on documents obtained from the WoS database, and selecting the combination of words “green infrastructures”, “ecosystem services”, and “climate change”. The results of this study point to the potential for Green Infrastructures to become a major strategic factor in addressing the global environmental and social challenges facing cities. The findings obtained are relevant to researchers, professionals, and others working on green infrastructure research as tools to address current global environmental problems, such as climate change, urban pollution, loss of biodiversity, or the risk of emergence of new epidemics or diseases.
Highlights
IntroductionEnvironmental Challenges: A ReviewRecent studies show the relationship between the degradation and pollution of natural ecosystems and the increased risk of disease or economic losses for the human population as a result of extreme environmental events [1,2,3].This seems to show that the environmental challenges we face as a society, such as climate change or loss of biodiversity, are an ecological problem and a health and economic one.it is essential to change the mindset when addressing economic, health, and spatial planning policies and strategies to include measures aimed at integrating natural and urban systems and protecting biodiversity.These policies should not treat natural habitats as merely a source of resources or energy to produce goods and services; it is important to remember that they provide other environmental services that are key to human well-being, such as climate change, food security, and reducing the risk of environmental disasters and diseases.Historically, conventional economics has not valued these environmental services.recent research shows that the economic value of natural ecosystems in terms of their contribution to human well-being and health have an economic value between 10 and 100 times higher than the cost related to its conservation [4,5,6]
The red cluster to policy planning and green infrastructure strategies, with to policy planning and green infrastructure strategies (e.g., governance, policy, design, urban green infrastructures and with enmanagement, framework, land use, restoration, adaptation, conservation, model), with vironmental services provided by green infrastructures
Urban green infrastructures and with environmental services provided by green infrastructures
Summary
Environmental Challenges: A ReviewRecent studies show the relationship between the degradation and pollution of natural ecosystems and the increased risk of disease or economic losses for the human population as a result of extreme environmental events [1,2,3].This seems to show that the environmental challenges we face as a society, such as climate change or loss of biodiversity, are an ecological problem and a health and economic one.it is essential to change the mindset when addressing economic, health, and spatial planning policies and strategies to include measures aimed at integrating natural and urban systems and protecting biodiversity.These policies should not treat natural habitats as merely a source of resources or energy to produce goods and services; it is important to remember that they provide other environmental services that are key to human well-being, such as climate change, food security, and reducing the risk of environmental disasters and diseases.Historically, conventional economics has not valued these environmental services.recent research shows that the economic value of natural ecosystems in terms of their contribution to human well-being and health have an economic value between 10 and 100 times higher than the cost related to its conservation [4,5,6]. It is essential to change the mindset when addressing economic, health, and spatial planning policies and strategies to include measures aimed at integrating natural and urban systems and protecting biodiversity. These policies should not treat natural habitats as merely a source of resources or energy to produce goods and services; it is important to remember that they provide other environmental services that are key to human well-being, such as climate change, food security, and reducing the risk of environmental disasters and diseases.
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