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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. This book is an open access publication.
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-20023-7
- Pages
- 43 –56
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-20024-4_5
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[This chapter presents an application of ecosystem service assessments to support urban planning decisions. The case study concerns the regeneration of brownfields in the city of Trento (Italy). Potential re-greening interventions are prioritized according to their expected consequences on two illustrative, though relevant ecosystem services for the city: microclimate regulation and nature-based recreation. The performance of the different alternatives in relation to the two ecosystem services is assessed by comparing current conditions and future planning scenarios. The alternatives are compared based on the number of people that would benefit from the services provided by the re-greening interventions. Then, the results are combined through a multi-criteria analysis where criteria correspond to a set of defined planning objectives that may assume different weights according to different stakeholder perspectives. Multi-criteria analysis proved to be an effective tool to make the results of multiple ecosystem service assessments usable by decision-makers.]
Published: Jul 30, 2019
Keywords: Urban planning; Multi-criteria analysis; Brownfield regeneration; Urban ecosystem services