Abstract
This chapter is aimed to analyze the relationships between environmental sustainability, urban ecosystems and green innovation. The purpose of this paper focuses on the assumption to reviewing the work done on green areas innovation in urban settings and identifying the social, niche, incremental and radical types of innovation, as well as the dimensions of sustainable urban ecosystems associated with the concept, encompassing the risks inherent to administrative, technological and operational innovations. The method employed is the critical analytical review of literature and further discussion on the issues focusing the city´s experience on managing the formulation, generation, development, implementation and evaluation of new behaviors and ideas in green innovation. It is concluded that the green innovation is directly related with the environmental sustainability and urban ecosystems. The interest of this analysis lies in providing support to urban settlements in managing the risks inherent in green area innovation, incremental or radical as a community’s management would experience in relation to the environmental sustainability in urban ecosystems.
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