Urban Ecosystem Service Provision and Social-Environmental Justice in the City of Leipzig, Germany

2019 ◽  
pp. 347-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadja Kabisch
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Tracing and building up environmental justice considerations in the urban ecosystem service literature: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 104130
Author(s):  
Amalia Calderón-Argelich ◽  
Stefania Benetti ◽  
Isabelle Anguelovski ◽  
James J.T. Connolly ◽  
Johannes Langemeyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Urban Ecosystem

scholarly journals Monitoring of Urbanization and Analysis of Environmental Impact in Stockholm with Sentinel-2A and SPOT-5 Multispectral Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 2408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Furberg ◽  
Yifang Ban ◽  
Andrea Nascetti
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Stockholm County ◽  
Sentinel 2A ◽  
Spot 5

There has been substantial urban growth in Stockholm, Sweden, the fastest-growing capital in Europe. The intensifying urbanization poses challenges for environmental management and sustainable development. Using Sentinel-2 and SPOT-5 imagery, this research investigates the evolution of land-cover change in Stockholm County between 2005 and 2015, and evaluates urban growth impact on protected green areas, green infrastructure and urban ecosystem service provision. One scene of 2015 Sentinel-2A multispectral instrument (MSI) and 10 scenes of 2005 SPOT-5 high-resolution instruments (HRI) imagery over Stockholm County are classified into 10 land-cover categories using object-based image analysis and a support vector machine algorithm with spectral, textural and geometric features. Reaching accuracies of approximately 90%, the classifications are then analyzed to determine impact of urban growth in Stockholm between 2005 and 2015, including land-cover change statistics, landscape-level urban ecosystem service provision bundle changes and evaluation of regional and local impact on legislatively protected areas as well as ecologically significant green infrastructure networks. The results indicate that urban areas increased by 15%, while non-urban land cover decreased by 4%. In terms of ecosystem services, changes in proximity of forest and low-density built-up areas were the main cause of lowered provision of temperature regulation, air purification and noise reduction. There was a decadal ecosystem service loss of 4.6 million USD (2015 exchange rate). Urban areas within a 200 m buffer zone around the Swedish environmental protection agency’s nature reserves increased 16%, with examples of urban areas constructed along nature reserve boundaries. Urban expansion overlapped the deciduous ecological corridor network and green wedge/core areas to a small but increasing degree, often in close proximity to weak but important green links in the landscape. Given these findings, increased conservation/restoration focus on the region’s green weak links is recommended.

scholarly journals CONTAMINAÇÃO DO SOLO E CONFLITOS: O CASO DA EMPRESA CENTRESDOI: 10.5773/rgsa.v4i3.332

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renan Finamore
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Soil Contamination ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The City

Problemas de contaminação ambiental do solo, quando socialmente percebidos, geralmente suscitam conflitos socioambientais, tendo em vista as incertezas quanto aos seus possíveis riscos e impactos na saúde humana e nos ecossistemas. Além disso, tais problemas também evidenciam a distribuição desigual de riscos e impactos ambientais pela sociedade – sobrecarregando grupos sociais mais vulneráveis –, conforme articulado pela noção de (in)justiça ambiental. Desta forma, o presente artigo contextualiza a problemática da contaminação do solo no âmbito da gestão ambiental, ao mesmo tempo em que a relaciona com a ocorrência de conflitos socioambientais. Para tanto, utiliza-se como estudo de caso principal o evento de contaminação por resíduos industriais decorrente das ações da empresa CENTRES no município de Queimados, RJ. Ao final, ressalta-se a importância do reconhecimento da dimensão do conflito socioambiental inerente aos problemas de contaminação do solo, de maneira a estimular processos democráticos e participativos de gestão dos mesmos, incorporando os grupos sociais afetados em todas as etapas destes processos, e, assim, deslocar o problema do domínio meramente técnico-científico para um mais ampliado, que leve em consideração a perspectiva social. Palavras-chave: Contaminação do Solo; Conflitos Socioambientais; Gestão Ambiental; Justiça Ambiental. ABSTRACT Soil contamination is an environmental issue which often raises social environmental conflicts, mainly because of the uncertainties related to the risks and impacts to human health and the ecosystems. Besides, it also demonstrates the unequal distribution of risks and impacts through the society – affecting mainly certain social groups which are more vulnerable –, as shown by the notion of environmental justice. Therefore, the present paper gives us an overview of the soil contamination issue and its implications to the environmental management and, at the same time, it highlights the social environmental conflicts related. In this way, a case study is analyzed, the event of soil contamination by the CENTRES enterprise in the city of Queimados, RJ, Brazil. At the end, special emphasis is given to the necessity of recognizing the dimension of social environmental conflict which is inherent to the cases of soil contamination, in order to stimulate social participative approaches of management, incorporating the affected people in all of the stages. By doing so, the problem will be dislocated from the technical and scientific domain to an extended one, which takes into account social issues. Keywords:Soil Contamination; Social Environmental Conflicts; Environmental Management; Environmental Justice.

scholarly journals Cross-taxon relationships in Mediterranean urban ecosystem: A case study from the city of Trieste

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 107538
Author(s):  
Laura Zara ◽  
Enrico Tordoni ◽  
Silvia Castro-Delgado ◽  
Andrea Colla ◽  
Simona Maccherini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
The City

scholarly journals A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation

AMBIO ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Haase ◽  
Neele Larondelle ◽  
Erik Andersson ◽  
Martina Artmann ◽  
Sara Borgström ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Quantitative Review
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