Green Infrastructure and Landscape Planning in a Sustainable and Resilient Perspective
The topic of green infrastructure is becoming more and more popular within the academic world and public bodies. In the face of climate change, it represents an urgent dilemma to be developed in both urban and landscape planning practices. Green infrastru
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Green Infrastructure and Landscape Planning in a Sustainable and Resilient Perspective Angioletta Voghera and Benedetta Giudice
Abstract The topic of green infrastructure is becoming more and more popular within the academic world and public bodies. In the face of climate change, it represents an urgent dilemma to be developed in both urban and landscape planning practices. Green infrastructure is indeed a well-fitted stage where to combine not only environmental, ecological and landscape elements but also social and technological ones. Within the framework of sustainability and resilience, in this chapter, we attempt to outline all the relevant issues which need to be included and discussed when speaking of green infrastructure and landscape planning. In order to analyse the Italian situation, we refer to some international experiences which have developed specific national norms and policies on green infrastructure. We conclude proposing some open issues and perspectives that emerge from current international debates. Keywords Green infrastructure · Landscape planning · Sustainability · Resilience · Social-ecological system · Design process
16.1 F raming Sustainability and Resilience for Landscape and Green Infrastructure Sustainability and resilience are well-known buzzwords, even though the two concepts and their meaning can be easily misunderstood, confused, and interchanged (Derissen et al. 2011; Redman 2014; Xu et al. 2015; Zhang and Li 2018). In particular, on the one hand, since the 1987 Brundtland Report introducing the concept of A. Voghera · B. Giudice (*) Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, R3C - Responsible Risk Resilience Centre, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 A. Arcidiacono, S. Ronchi (eds.), Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure, Cities and Nature, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54345-7_16
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sustainable development, there has been an increased interest in urban sustainability in relation to its environmental, social, and economic issues. On the other hand, the concept of resilience has emerged within different research fields and disciplines resulting in a multitude of definitions (Davoudi 2012; Folke 2016; Meerow et al. 2016; Brunetta et al. 2019). Both concepts have a strong connection between the natural and the human environment and thus put great emphasis on social–ecological systems (Folke 2006). Over the years, sustainability and resilience have also pervaded planning and design discourses and researches as they are widely used to understand, analyse, and cope with global transformations (climatic, environmental, and energetic, etc.). The necessary characteristics of a suitable planning and design for sustainability and resilience (Voghera 2016) are the reflective capacity, the flexibility of the process, the creativity, the inclusion of stakeholders, the integration of different action scales and multiple policies, and the ro
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