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  • Building green infrastructure to enhance urban resilience to climate change and pandemics
    Publication . Pamukcu-Albers, Pinar; Ugolini, Francesca; La Rosa, Daniele; Grădinaru, Simona R.; Azevedo, João; Wu, Jianguo
    The looming climate crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the importance of green infrastructure in and around cities, prompting an urgent call for more functional and sustainable urban planning and design. A number of recent studies have shown that green infrastructure offers a wide range of ecosystem functions and services essential to human wellbeing and urban sustainability (O’Brien et al. 2017; Staddon et al. 2018) which are of particular relevance under climatic and health crises. In this editorial we stress the importance of the existing green infrastructure to withstand climate change-induced stresses, namely those related to increasing climate variability and extreme temperature and precipitation events, and to contribute to human physical and mental health of urban dwellers during lockdown periods. In both cases, green infrastructure plays a major role in providing urban areas with resilience capacity that is key to urban sustainability. We also highlight the need to expand and improve green infrastructure, in particular in regions that are more vulnerable, based on integrative and participatory processes. This editorial was motivated by a webinar organized by the IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) Landscape Ecology Working Party (https://iufrole-wp.weebly.com/) held on November 17th, 2020.
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  • Urban resilience through green infrastructure
    Publication . Pamukcu-Albers, Pinar; Azevedo, João; Ugolini, Francesca; Zuniga-Teran, Adriana; Wu, Jianguo
    As cities keep growing and expanding, they become more vulnerable to climate change and directly and indirectly related disturbances. Thus increasing urban resilience is now a primary goal in planning and management of cities. Urban resilience depends on protecting biodiversity and providing habitats (ecological resilience), managing water sustainably (water resilience), reducing the effects of heat island and heat waves in the city (climate resilience), and assuring human health and social cohesion (social resilience). In addition, the resilience of cities is not just about solving single problems against climate change and related disturbances or achieving a single goal. To build urban resilience, urban green spaces must be planned and designed with appropriate criteria and principles to contribute to an interconnected and well-managed green network. This chapter examines some key components and dimensions to meet the needs for resilient cities and discusses some possible pathways toward urban resilience.
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