Spatial Planning of Green Infrastructure for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change at a Regional Scale

Andrés M. García, Inés Santé, Xurxo Loureiro and David Miranda
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Andrés M. García: Land Laboratory, Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain
Inés Santé: Land Laboratory, Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain
Xurxo Loureiro: Land Laboratory, Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain
David Miranda: Land Laboratory, Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 24, 1-22

Abstract: Green infrastructure has acquired greater importance in recent years in relation to climate change adaptation. Green infrastructure planning has been identified as a new and innovative means of land planning that can contribute to preventing the impacts of climate change. However, this has been explored more thoroughly in urban areas than at the regional scale. The present study proposes a methodology including multi-criteria evaluation techniques for assessing the ESS involved in the fight against climate change and for the spatial planning of multifunctional green infrastructure areas based on the results of this assessment. Application of the methodology for green infrastructure planning aimed at confronting climate change at landscape level in the region of Galicia (NW Spain) successfully delimited multifunctional green infrastructure zones. Results show that delimited zones have a higher provision potential for more ESS than protected natural areas and areas that are not part of the green infrastructure.

Keywords: green infrastructure delineation; green infrastructure zoning; multi-criteria evaluation; multifunctional green infrastructure; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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