{"title":"Study of Green Infrastructure in European Cities: Opportunities and possibilities","authors":"J. Hussein, P. Kumble, Henry W.A Hanson IV","doi":"10.5614/jpwk.2023.34.3.3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Green infrastructure (GI) is generally defined as a network of natural and semi-natural regions that has been sensitively developed and managed to provide an array of ecosystem services and improve people’s well-being. Across Europe, the notion of GI has had a robust association with the the impacts of climate change, multifunctionality, and green growth; this is especially true over the past ten years, from 2012 to 2022. This has resulted in a broad-based agenda on policy and research with vast differences, targeting a variety of themes and cultures. The systematic review and meta-analysis conducted in this paper present an up-to-date review of the main attributes of GI-related research and the implications for the member states within the European Union (EU). GI-related concepts, thematic clusters, and the main priorities within the research were considered in our review. Due to the ambiguity of the definition of GI, a broad diversity of research goals and published output are discussed. It was also seen that green spaces situated within urban areas and their related ecosystem services are the most common topics in the literature. Based on this, we recommend that an in-depth integration of the goals pertaining to nature conservation be conducted to understand how GI may pertain towards sustainable transitions in and outside the city.","PeriodicalId":41870,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional and City Planning","volume":"14 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Regional and City Planning","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5614/jpwk.2023.34.3.3","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Green infrastructure (GI) is generally defined as a network of natural and semi-natural regions that has been sensitively developed and managed to provide an array of ecosystem services and improve people’s well-being. Across Europe, the notion of GI has had a robust association with the the impacts of climate change, multifunctionality, and green growth; this is especially true over the past ten years, from 2012 to 2022. This has resulted in a broad-based agenda on policy and research with vast differences, targeting a variety of themes and cultures. The systematic review and meta-analysis conducted in this paper present an up-to-date review of the main attributes of GI-related research and the implications for the member states within the European Union (EU). GI-related concepts, thematic clusters, and the main priorities within the research were considered in our review. Due to the ambiguity of the definition of GI, a broad diversity of research goals and published output are discussed. It was also seen that green spaces situated within urban areas and their related ecosystem services are the most common topics in the literature. Based on this, we recommend that an in-depth integration of the goals pertaining to nature conservation be conducted to understand how GI may pertain towards sustainable transitions in and outside the city.
绿色基础设施(GI)一般被定义为自然和半自然区域的网络,经过精心开发和管理,可提供一系列生态系统服务并改善人们的福祉。在整个欧洲,GI 的概念与气候变化的影响、多功能性和绿色增长有着密切的联系;在 2012 年至 2022 年的过去十年中,情况尤其如此。这导致了基础广泛的政策和研究议程,其中存在巨大差异,针对不同的主题和文化。本文通过系统回顾和荟萃分析,对地理信息相关研究的主要特征以及对欧盟(EU)成员国的影响进行了最新回顾。我们在综述中考虑了与地理信息相关的概念、主题集群以及研究中的主要优先事项。由于 GI 定义的模糊性,我们讨论了广泛多样的研究目标和已发表的成果。我们还发现,位于城市区域内的绿地及其相关生态系统服务是文献中最常见的主题。在此基础上,我们建议对与自然保护相关的目标进行深入整合,以了解 GI 如何与城市内外的可持续转型相关联。