NoonTalk@DIATI #27: “ECO.G.U.S. - ECOsystem services for resilient and sustainable cities: an ecohydrological approach for Green Urban Spaces”
Seminar with prof. Roberto Revelli - prof. Pierluigi Claps moderates the discussion
For the first time in recorded history the majority of people live in cities and the increasing urbanization modifies the mass, momentum, and energy budgets of cities. In this way, it is imperative to develop quantitative approaches to sustainability: this means quantifying fluxes and their impacts on processes and understanding the coupled dynamics of water, energy and nutrients in and out urban ecosystems. In the next decades redevelopment, densification, population increase and demographic shift, as well as the climate change, will potentially impact the production and consumption of urban ecosystem services. Among the various ecosystem services, the ECO.G.U.S. project focuses on urban green spaces as fundamental components of urban water, energy, and nutrient cycles and key resources for building sustainable, resilient and adaptive urban systems. Under the framework of “socio-ecohydrology” the main goal of ECO.G.U.S. project is to develop scientific tools to quantify the urban green spaces sustainability and their benefits as ecosystem services.
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