Abstract
Current rates in population growth and urbanization are threatening sustainability. Increasing soil consumption and dwellings with inadequate characteristics need to be counteracted to ensure well-being of present and future populations. Urban planning is currently characterized by an approach based on standards and restrictions, and, as such, is unable to cope with the above problems. An Ecosystem Service (ES) approach can be valuable in assessing current quality of life in urban settlements and in planning for its improvement. Green open spaces and relationships between urban, peri-urban and rural areas are very important in the provision of Ecosystem Services (ESs) to built-up areas. While many authors focus on approaches aiming to provide a monetary value for ESs, others are more interested in how to operationalize ES use in planning, without having to assess ES monetary value. The authors propose an integrated AMC-GIS approach aiming to improve planning by providing a three-dimensional spatial analysis of productive, protective and cultural-recreational ESs based on the integration of the three RGB channels. Resulting maps provide a spatial representation of the mix of the three ES categories and stress the multifunctional role of many open spaces. Although the model requires further refinement and testing, preliminary results show that this approach may represent an innovative tool both for urban planning and design and for monitoring and correcting urban projects that are already underway.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
DM 1444/68 fixed urban standard, e.g. fixed a maximum ratio between spaces used for residential and industrial settlements and other spaces, i.e. public spaces or spaces for collective uses, public green spaces, parking places. This resulted in a minimum amount of 18 m2 of public other spaces for each existing or future inhabitant.
- 2.
References
Assennato F (2014) Consumo di suolo, servizi ecosistemici e resilienza: un quadro da comporre nella pratica. VIII Giornata di Studi INU “Una politica per le città italiane”. Napoli, 12–13 Dicembre 2014. http://www.inu.it/convegni-nazionali-2/viii-giornata-di-studi-inu-una-politica-per-le-citta-italiane/
Beinat E, Nijkamp P (eds) (1998) Multicriteria analysis for land-use management. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, Mass
Braat LC, de Groot R (2012) The ecosystem services agenda: bridging the worlds of natural science and economics, conservation and development, and public and private policy. Ecosyst Serv 1(1):4–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2012.07.011
Buonanno D, Terracciano A (2014) Ruralurbanism. Una visione per la città diffusa. VIII Giornata di Studi INU “Una politica per le città italiane”. Napoli, 12–13 Dicembre 2014. http://www.inu.it/convegni-nazionali-2/viii-giornata-di-studi-inu-una-politica-per-le-citta-italiane/
Cortinovis C, Geneletti D (2018) Ecosystem services in urban plans: what is there, and what is still needed for better decisions. Land Use Policy 70:298–312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.10.017
Costanza R, d’Arge R, de Groot R, Farber S, Grasso M, Hannon B, van den Belt M (1997) The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature
Costanza R, de Groot R, Sutton P, van der Ploeg S, Anderson SJ, Kubiszewski I, Turner RK (2014) Changes in the global value of ecosystem services. Global Environ Change. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.002
de Groot RS, Alkemade R, Braat L, Hein L, Willemen L (2010) Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making. Ecological Complexity 7(3):260–272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.10.006
European Environment Agency (EEA) (2016a) Soil resource efficiency in urbanised areas. Analytical framework and implications for governance, Report n 7/2016 retrieved from https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/soil-resource-efficiency
European Environment Agency (EEA) (2016b) Urban sprawl in Europe Joint EEA-FOEN report. Report n 11/2016 retrieved from https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/urban-sprawl-in-europe
Garzarelli F (2014) Verso una riconfigurazione qualitativa-prestazionale delle dotazioni territoriali. Una possibile reinterpretazione della città esistente. VIII Giornata di Studi INU “Una politica per le città italiane”. Napoli, 12–13 Dicembre 2014. http://www.inu.it/convegni-nazionali-2/viii-giornata-di-studi-inu-una-politica-per-le-citta-italiane/
Giaimo C, Regis D, Salata S (2016) Ecosystem services and urban planning. NEWDIST
Haines-Young R, Potschin M (2013) International classification of ecosystem services (CICES). Report to the European Environment Agency. http://doi.org/10.1038/nature10650
Hansen R, Frantzeskaki N, McPhearson T, Rall E, Kabisch N, Kaczorowska A, … Pauleit S (2015) The uptake of the ecosystem services concept in planning discourses of European and American cities. Ecosyst Serv 12:228–246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.11.013
Kandziora M, Burkhard B, Müller F (2013) Mapping provisioning ecosystem services at the local scale using data of varying spatial and temporal resolution. Ecosyst Serv. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.04.001
Maes J, Teller A, Erhard M, Liquete C, Braat L, Berry P, … Bidoglio G (2013) Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services. An analytical framework for ecosystem assessments under Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. Brussels: Publications office of the European Union, Luxembourg. Retrieved from http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/knowledge/ecosystem_assessment/pdf/MAESWorkingPaper2013.pdf
Magnaghi A (2013) The role of historical rural landscapes in territorial planning. In Agnoletti M (ed) Italian historical rural landscapes. Cultural values for the environment and rural development. Springer, pp 131–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5354-9_3
Malczewski J (1999) GIS and multicriteria decision analysis. Wiley, 392 pages
Malczewski J (2006a) GIS‐based multicriteria decision analysis: a survey of the literature. Int J Geogr Inf Sci 20(7):703–726. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13658810600661508
Malczewski J (2006b) Ordered weighted averaging with fuzzy quantifiers: GIS-based multicriteria evaluation for land-use suitability analysis. Int J Appl Earth Obs Geoinf 8(4):270–277
Malczewski J, Rinner C (2015) Multicriteria decision analysis in geo-graphic information science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74757-4
Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystem and human well-being: synthesis. Island Press, 1–59. http://www.maweb.org/
Paba G, Perrone C, Lucchesi F, Zetti I (2017) Territory matters. A regional portrait of Florence and Tuscany. In: Balducci A, Fedeli V, Curci F (eds) Post-metropolitan territories: looking for a new Urbanity. Routledge Advances in regional economics, science and policy, vol 21. Routledge, Oxon
Potschin M, Haines-Young R (2013) Landscapes, sustainability and the place-based analysis of ecosystem services. Landscape Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-012-9756-x
Pulighe G, Fava F, Lupia F (2016) Insights and opportunities from mapping ecosystem services of urban green spaces and potentials in planning. Ecosyst Serv 22:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.09.004
Regione Toscana (2015) Piano di indirizzo territoriale con valenza di piano paesaggistico, (in Italian) retrieved from http://www.regione.toscana.it/enti-e-associazioni/pianificazione-e-paesaggio
Repubblica Italiana (1968) Decreto Ministeriale 2 aprile 1968, n. 1444, G.U. 16 aprile 1968, n. 97 (in Italian), retrieved from: http://www.camera.it/temiap/2014/12/09/OCD177-705.pdf
Rossi M, Zetti I (2018) In mezzo alle cose. Città e spazi interclusi. Dip. di Architettura (Firenze)
Rovai M, Andreoli M (2018) Integrating AHP and GIS techniques for rural landscape and agricultural activities planning. multiple criteria decision making. In Berbel J, Bournaris T, Manos B, Matsatsinis N, Viaggi D (eds) Multicriteria analysis in agricolture. current trends and recent applications. Springer
Roy B (1996) Multicriteria methodology for decision aiding, vol 12. Springer, US, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2500-1
Saaty TL (1980) The analytic hierarchy process. Education, pp 1–11. Available at: http://www.mendeley.com/research/the-analytic-hierarchy-process/
Sukhdev P (2008) The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: an interim report. European Communities. http://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbr052
UN (2018) World urbanization prospects: the 2018 Revision – Key facts, department of economic & social affairs (DESA). Available at: https://population.un.org/wup/Publications/Files/WUP2018-KeyFacts.pdf. Accessed 28 Feb 2018
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (2011) Guide to corporate ecosystem valuation: a framework for improving corporate decision-making. World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Zetti I (2013) Campagna Urbanizzata or Sprawl? Images from the florentine conurbation. In: Living landscapes—landscapes for living, Firenze, Febbraio—Giugno 2012, Planum association—the journal of urbanism vol 2/2013. pp 5–13. ISSN 1723‐0993
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Rovai, M., Zetti, I., Lucchesi, F., Rossi, M., Andreoli, M. (2020). Peri-urban Open Spaces and Sustainable Urban Development Between Value and Consumption. In: Mondini, G., Oppio, A., Stanghellini, S., Bottero, M., Abastante, F. (eds) Values and Functions for Future Cities. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23786-8_14
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23786-8_14
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-23784-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-23786-8
eBook Packages: EnergyEnergy (R0)