• Título:  URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE: SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BASED ON LANDSCAPE SERVICES
• Autor:  Zhang, Sining
• Universidad:  Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
• Departamento:  Geografia
• Fecha de Lectura:  02/07/2019
• Programa de doctorado:  Programa de Doctorado en Geografía por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
• Dirección: 
  • MUÑOZ RAMÍREZ, FRANCESC (DIRECTOR)
  • MUÑOZ RAMÍREZ, FRANCESC (TUTOR/PONENTE)
• Tribunal: 
  • LUNA GARCIA, ANTONI (PRESIDENTE)
  • Angrilli, Massimo (SECRETARIO)
  • Oliverira, Rosário (VOCAL)
• Descriptores: 
  • GEOGRAFIA URBANA
• Localización:  BIBLIOTECA DE COMUNICACION Y HEMEROTECA GENERAL DE LA UAB
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• Resumen:
  The ecosystems services approach has represented a hot research area in academia during the past two decades as it is an effective way of strengthening the connection between ecosystems and human well-being. Landscape services, as a particular way of ecosystem services, have been increasingly valued highly by researchers. However, the scientific and systematic general theory of landscape services is still blank. Landscape services assessment and mapping can effectively carry out the spatial analysis on a specific scale that helps to maintain multi-functional landscapes and plan urban green infrastructure. In return, green infrastructure can deliver a wide variety of landscape functions and services, which promotes landscape sustainability. However, there is still a huge challenge regarding quantitative assessment and mapping of landscape services to support urban / landscape planning. This dissertation assumes landscape services approach is a much better and suitable methodology than ecosystem services approach, so the assessment and spatial analysis of the supply capacity of landscape services would be better guide urban green infrastructure planning. Besides, the consideration of landscape services offers the possibility for including in the definition of urban green infrastructures a different type of areas playing different roles and supplying different services (environmental plus cultural). In order to verify the hypotheses, first, this study proposes the general theory of landscape services in the context of landscape, including identification and classification, through the case study (the Collserola Natural Park) that justifying in which situation the landscape services can replace the ecosystem services. Second, this study uses various landscape services (as X-axis) and different land use types (as Y-axis) to build a landscape service assessment matrix, which contributes to assess and map the supply of landscape services. It takes the Barcelona municipality as the case study to analyse the spatial distribution characteristics of landscapes services within the investigation area. Then, this dissertation identifies the possible spatial characteristic areas, which are the landscape services provision, barren and obstructed areas by overlapping the supply of landscape services assessment maps. Finally, on this basis, it provides a reference for urban green infrastructure planning by recognising the priority protected areas, new construction areas, potential areas and renewal areas. In these different areas, several strategies for urban green infrastructure planning and landscape planning are provided, including: (1) the protection and maintenance of the existing high-quality green spaces, landscape and cultural heritage in the priority protected area; (2) the protection of the existing cultural services and consideration of the demand for other landscape services in the new construction area; (3) identification and regeneration of new green spaces in the vacant lots of compact urban cores using innovative strategies (e.g., green roof and wall); (4) ecological renewal and restoration measures should be done in the renewal area. To sum up, this dissertation aims to seek a methodology to plan urban green infrastructure better based on the landscape services approach, and to provide a new vision to promote sustainable regional development by integrating the concept and approach of landscape services into urban green infrastructure planning.