GREEN SPACES and GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

Landscape Fragmentation and Human Development : Inter-Linking Ecosystem Services

Local Green Spaces and Urban Forests: At Risk Ecosystems

Green spaces and urban forests play a crucial role in the sustainability of ecosystems as they provide important ecological services such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity.  They also play vital roles within human interaction and provide many social, economic, psychological, and environmental benefits.  The process of urbanisation, particularly peri-urbanisation, impacts green spaces forests in many ways, most notably fragmentation.  

The GIPL focusses on urban and urbanising ecosystems in order to document and analyse the important relationships between green spaces, forest fragmentation and human wellbeing through both a multi-scale and multi-disciplinary perspective. These inter-linked perspectives need to be established to inform future design, planning and management decisions. 

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Green infrastructure planning and design contributes to conserving and enhancing biodiversity, improving environmental quality, reducing the ecological footprint, adapting cities to climate change, and promoting social cohesion. Green infrastructure provides a pathway towards a green economy.

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