Mitigation of Urban Impacts: A Transdisciplinary Vision of Green Space Support for Human Well-Being | Chapter 6 | Emerging Issues in Environment, Geography and Earth Science Vol. 1

 Within this item, we present an overview of the merits and disadvantages of employing the ecosystem duties approach in the design of green spaces. Amidst the extending urban land use and allure consequent impacts on the overall environment, green scopes emerge as essential providers of environment services, promoting the happiness of the populace. The idea of ecosystem aids serves as a unifying framework for including human-environment interplays, amalgamating the facets of biodiversity and abiotic fundamentals. This framework establishes a link betwixt ecological processes, functions, and the health of humans. In the city context, the notion of green foundation (GI) accentuates not only the quantiaty but again the caliber of city and peri-urban green rooms and natural zones. Nonetheless, the act of urban stressors or the urban environment as driving forces behind city GI is not universally comprehended. This information gap can be ascribed, in part, to the difference between the environmental and planning scientific approach, that revolves around the friendship between "biodiversity, city space planning, and human happiness," and the biological controlled approach, which centers on plant responses to material stresses that impact human well-being. This difference can lead to a contradiction, as inadequately designed green rooms may not yield the anticipated effects. The focus concerning this study is centred on the principal ecosystem services given by green roofs and urban farming, with an importance on: (i) The interplay of ecological processes and functions that endure ecosystem aids, (ii) Urban environmental stressors concerning potential adverse effects (disservices) they can generate for human happiness, (iii) Essential considerations for the planning and design of city ecosystem aids. This innovative, transdisciplinary view on urban ecosystem duties underscores the authoritative of considering GI as an alive component in the design of urban spaces inside the constructed surroundings.

Author(s) Details:

Teodoro Semeraro,
Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, S.P. 6 Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.

Aurelia Scarano,
ISPA-CNR, Institute of Science of Food Production, C.N.R. Unit of Lecce, 73100 Lecce, Italy.

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