Planning Rural Landscapes - Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services Nexus

Appealing to a broad audience, this book bridges different issues, from landscape to ecosystems, planning to implementation, and policies to local community willingness. This book outlines a methodology for defining Green Infrastructure in rural landscapes, showing how it underpins Ecosystem Services and aligns with various EU directives.

Sommario

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Introduction
SECTION I. A COMMON GROUND FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN LANDSCAPE PLANNING
1 Concept of Structure - evolution, modalities, problems
Adriana Veríssimo Serrão
2. Landscape System - concepts and a methodology for planning landscapes FIG
Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha
3. Reconnecting Networks - A methodological approach to Green Infrastructure design at landscape level FIG
Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães
4. From planning to practice - Restoration and conservation actions for GI implementation
Luísa Franco, Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães
5. The management logics of private landowners and their implication for landscape transformation
Luísa Franco, Manuela Magalhães, Fernando Oliveira Batista
6. Dynamic landscapes: Insights into Geology and Geomorphology diversity
Maria Manuela Abreu, Selma Pena
SECTION II. LINKING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN RURAL LANDSCAPE
7. Unlocking Nature's Benefits: Ecosystem services in rural landscape planning
Selma Pena, Pedro Xavier, Natália Cunha, Ana Müller
8. EUNIS Habitat Classification - Implementation at the national level for mainland Portugal
Pedro Xavier, Silvia Ribeiro, Jorge Capelo, Selma Pena, Natália Cunha
9. A comprehensive analysis of water conservation ecosystem services at the river basin level
Selma Pena, Manuela Abreu, Natália Cunha
10. Soil conservation ecosystem services at regional scale
Selma Pena, Manuela Abreu, Nuno Cortez
11. Biodiversity ecosystem services: a case study on Habitat maintenance for flora species with conservation status in Portugal
Pedro Xavier, Sílvia Ribeiro, Dalila Espirito-Santo, Selma Pena, Natália Cunha
SECTION III. APPLICATIONS ACROSS SCALES AND COUNTRIES
12. Monsanto Urban Forest Landscape Plan: Integrating Nature-Based Solutions into Lisbon's Metropolitan Green Infrastructure
Ana Müller, Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha, Selma Pena, Luísa Franco
13. Noticing the Landscape: dwelling, abandoning, entangling
Francisca Lima, Annie Gallagher, Melisa Miranda Correa, Tiago Torres-Campos
14. Eco Account and State-wide Biotope Network Plan (SW Germany)
Christian Küpfer
15. Agroecosystems as Green Infrastructure. Case Study in Milan (Italy)
Francesca Neonato
16. Boughzoul (Algeria), a new ' sustainable ' town waiting for users
Fares Trodi, Karima Bencherif-Trodi
17. Green Infrastructure in Spain
Pedro Calaza, Paloma Cariñanos
18. Landscape transformation across scales: From municipal to local experience
Ana Müller, Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha
19. Planning towards a sustainable and fire resilient landscape on Commons Lands
Inês Adagói, Pedro Xavier, Selma Pena
Index

Info autore

Natália Cunha, PhD in Landscape Architecture (ISA/ University of Lisbon) and MSc in GIS (IST/UL), is a researcher at LEAF, Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Her postdoctoral research (CEEC/FCT, 2019-2025) focuses on integrating natural value protection into spatial planning. She specializes in GIS-based methodologies for ecological networks, green infrastructure, and landscape planning. Teaching assistant at ISA and IST from 2006 to 2013, she has contributed to multiple R&D projects, including green plans, ecological network, land morphology and flood risk mapping. She co-coordinates LandGi-nexus (2021-2023) and has published in peer-reviewed journals.
Manuela Magalhães, PhD in Landscape Architecture (ISA/ University of Lisbon). She founded and coordinated the Research Centre for Landscape Architecture (CEAP) in 2001. She was Deputy to the Secretary of State for the Environment and Head of the Landscape Planning Studies Division. Professor at the School of Agronomy and Instituto Superior Técnico (UL), she has coordinated several Green Municipal Plans and research projects, including the National Ecological Network and the Potential Landscape Plan of Portugal. A founding member and General Secretary of the Portuguese Landscape Architect Association (APAP). In 2022, she was awarded the Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles-Environment and Landscape career prize.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Natalia Magalhaes Cunha
• Con la collaborazione di: Natália Cunha (Editore), Manuela Magalhães (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 09.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032951829
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295182-9
• Pagine: 272
• Serie: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Biodiversity, Urban & municipal planning, Interdisciplinary studies, Conservation of the environment, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Landscape architecture and design, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Biodiversity / Ecosystems