A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Decision Support Tool Development
2.3. Identification of Relevant Green Infrastructure Benefits
2.4. Health: Heat Stress Mitigation
2.5. Climate Risk: Flood Absorption
2.6. Health: Pollution Mitigation
2.7. Biodiversity: Vegetation Biomass
2.8. Biodiversity: Habitat Connectivity
2.9. Spatial Accessibility
2.10. First Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
2.11. Generating the Multifunctional Benefits Map
2.12. Second Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
- What would make it easier for your organization to use the DST (e.g., packaging guides etc.)?
- What have we missed? Can you identify the opportunities/synergies and blind-spots/limitations of the tool?
- How can your department use this tool in their daily activities?
3. Analysis and Quality Control
4. Results
5. Discussion
5.1. Support for Decision-Making
5.2. Trade-Offs between Green Infrastructure Planning Decisions
5.3. Limitations of Scope and the Need for Supplementary Methods
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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GI 1 Category | GI Benefit | Need Addressed | Metric | Weight |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ecological | Vegetation | Maintaining natural ecosystems | Vegetation cover | 23.50 |
Ecological | Biodiversity | Connecting habitats for plants and animals | Patch contiguity | 19.25 |
Social | Health | Equal access for recreation and social well-being | Walking distance | 19.25 |
Economic | Climate | Flood absorption and mitigation | Flooding risk | 18.00 |
Economic | Climate | Refuge from summer heat | Land surface temperature | 10.00 |
Social | Health | Improving air quality | Air pollution | 10.00 |
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Brom, P.; Engemann, K.; Breed, C.; Pasgaard, M.; Onaolapo, T.; Svenning, J.-C. A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization. Land 2023, 12, 415. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020415
Brom P, Engemann K, Breed C, Pasgaard M, Onaolapo T, Svenning J-C. A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization. Land. 2023; 12(2):415. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020415
Chicago/Turabian StyleBrom, Peta, Kristine Engemann, Christina Breed, Maya Pasgaard, Titilope Onaolapo, and Jens-Christian Svenning. 2023. "A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization" Land 12, no. 2: 415. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020415