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Urban Green Infrastructure in Sustainable Development

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 April 2023) | Viewed by 3514

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Lidia Mierzejewska

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Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 61-680 Poznan, Poland
Interests: sustainable development; urban development; spatial planning; urban resilience; green areas; urban greenery
Prof. Dr. Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

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Doctoral School of Urban Planning, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, 010014 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: environmetrics; systems ecology; spatial ecology; geostatistics; urban ecology; landscape ecology; land cover and use; land cover and use changes; sustainable spatial development
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Dear Colleagues,

The key feature of green infrastructure can be found in its definition provided by the European Commission and relates to the fact that it is ‘strategically planned and managed’. This feature indicates that the term does not refer to all types of urban nature, although all provide ecosystem services, but specifically to those that are planned. Ecosystem services are essential for understanding the contribution of urban green infrastructure to the health and welfare of urban inhabitants and, implicitly, to sustainable urban development, including its resilience to various types of threats. This is why planning for urban green infrastructure is essential for sustainable urban planning. The urban planning process, and particularly its relation to urban green infrastructure, is crucial to turning the vicious circle that leads, through the loss of urban green infrastructure, to increasingly limited and poorer quality ecosystem services and, consequently, to an unsustainable future, into a virtuous circle, where well-planned urban green infrastructure yields more and higher quality ecosystem services and contributes to welfare and sustainability. All these topics and links are at the core of this Special Issue. We look forward to submissions exploring relevant topics, including but not limited to:

  • Theoretical developments related to the urban planning–urban green infrastructure–urban sustainability nexus.
  • Comparative studies analyzing the good practices of planning urban green infrastructure for ensuring urban sustainability.
  • Analyses of the effects of changes in the urban green infrastructure on urban sustainability.
  • The identification of the drivers of change in urban green infrastructure.
  • The importance of the connectivity of urban green infrastructure and its connections with regional green infrastructure.
  • Approaches to planning urban green infrastructure at different spatial scales.
  • The role of green infrastructure in building the resilience of cities to various types of threats.
  • The impact of green infrastructure on the health and well-being of urban residents. 

Dr. Lidia Mierzejewska
Prof. Dr. Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban and spatial planning
  • connectivity
  • urban sustainability and resilience
  • land cover and use changes
  • environmental planning
  • ecosystem services
  • urban greenery
  • health and well-being

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The Role of Greenery in Stress Reduction among City Residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Lidia Mierzejewska, Kamila Sikorska-Podyma, Marta Szejnfeld, Magdalena Wdowicka, Bogusz Modrzewski and Ewa Lechowska
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(10), 5832; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20105832 - 16 May 2023
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Cities, as places of social interactions and human relationships, face new challenges, problems, and threats, which are sources of stress for residents. An additional cause of stress in recent years has been the COVID-19 pandemic; it was urban dwellers who were most exposed [...] Read more.
Cities, as places of social interactions and human relationships, face new challenges, problems, and threats, which are sources of stress for residents. An additional cause of stress in recent years has been the COVID-19 pandemic; it was urban dwellers who were most exposed to the virus and most affected by it. Chronic stress has led to the serious erosion of physical health and psychophysical well-being among urban dwellers, and so there is a need to seek new solutions in terms of building the resilience of cities and their residents to stress. This study aims to verify the hypothesis that greenery reduced the level of stress among urban dwellers during the pandemic. The verification of this hypothesis was achieved based on a literature analysis and the results of geo-questionnaire studies conducted involving 651 residents of Poznan—among the largest of Polish cities, where the share of green areas in the spatial structure is more than 30%. According to the analysis, the interviewees experienced above-average stress levels that went up during the pandemic, and the source was not so much the virus but the restrictions imposed. Green areas and outdoor activities helped in reducing this stress (being surrounded by and looking at greenery, garden work, or plant cultivation). Residents perceive a post-pandemic city as one that is more green, in which priority is given to unmanaged green areas. It has also been pointed out that a response to the reported need for urban re-construction towards stress resilience may be a biophilic city. Full article
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Intensive Urbanization, Urban Meteorology and Air Pollutants: Effects on the Temperature of a City in a Basin Geography
by Patricio Pacheco, Eduardo Mera and Voltaire Fuentes
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(5), 3941; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20053941 - 22 Feb 2023
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A qualitative study of thermal transfers is carried out from a record of measurements (time series) of meteorological variables (temperature, relative humidity and magnitude of wind speeds) and pollutants (PM10, PM2.5 and CO) in six localities located at different heights [...] Read more.
A qualitative study of thermal transfers is carried out from a record of measurements (time series) of meteorological variables (temperature, relative humidity and magnitude of wind speeds) and pollutants (PM10, PM2.5 and CO) in six localities located at different heights in the geographic basin of Santiago de Chile. The measurements were made in two periods, 2010–2013 and 2017–2020 (a total of 2,049,336 data), the last period coinciding with a process of intense urbanization, especially high-rise construction. The measurements, in the form of hourly time series, are analyzed on the one hand according to the theory of thermal conduction discretizing the differential equation of the temporal variation in the temperature and, on the other hand, through the theory of chaos that provides the entropies (S). Both procedures demonstrate, comparatively, that the last period of intense urbanization presents an increase in thermal transfers and temperature, which affects urban meteorology and makes it more complex. As shown by the chaotic analysis, there is a faster loss of information for the period 2017–2020. The consequences of the increase in temperature on human health and learning processes are studied. Full article
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