Integrating urban blue and green areas based on historical evidence
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027073%3A_____%2F18%3AN0000024" target="_blank" >RIV/00027073:_____/18:N0000024 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866718301456" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866718301456</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.07.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ufug.2018.07.001</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Integrating urban blue and green areas based on historical evidence
Original language description
The reduced proportion of open and especially green and blue spaces is one of the major threats experienced by cities. Scholars advocate for strategies to enhance green spaces in cities, but less attention is given to urban blue infrastructure, which also has important benefits for the health and well-being of the residents. The present study aims to identify the specific changes that urban waters and green spaces have experienced in the past to assess the blue-green space relationships as an important step to move towards a green infrastructure planning approach. Based on the information extracted from historical maps over the past 160 years (1856-2016), we performed a land-use change and connectivity analysis of Bucharest city, Romania. Our results show that the Bucharest system of urban waters has significantly changed from small and disconnected patches to large and better-connected areas. Furthermore, the improved connectivity among the water bodies was justified by their integration within urban parks. Built-up areas, agricultural land, green spaces and landfill sites were identified as land uses that decreased the urban water surface. The potential to integrate urban waters with the green infrastructure network is high, and its efficiency is determined not only by structural connectivity but also by functional and institutional aspects.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
ISSN
1618-8667
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
August 2018
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
217-225
UT code for WoS article
000441562200024
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85049480395