Green infrastructure planning in metropolitan regions to improve the connectivity of agricultural landscapes and food security
Entity
UAM. Departamento de GeografíaPublisher
MDPI, Basel, SwitzerlandDate
2020-10-28Citation
10.3390/land9110414
Land 9 (2020): 414
ISSN
2073-445XDOI
10.3390/land9110414Funded by
This research has received funding from the research project “Paisaje y Huerta de Madrid” (PDRR-I8 agreement Autonomous University-IMIDRA) co-financed by the European Union through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Foodstuffs and the Environment and the Community of Madrid-IMIDRA Rural Development Program 2014–2020, and the ongoing research project SAMUTER from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Foodstuffs and the Environment, in the 2018 call, submeasure 16.1 within the framework of National Rural Development Program 2014–2020Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.3390/land9110414Subjects
landscape ecology; metropolitan planning; multi-functionality; peri-urban agriculture; food security; urban resilience; GeografíaRights
© 2020 The AuthorsAbstract
Green infrastructure (GI), as a concept and as a tool for environmental land-use planning
at various scales, has burst onto the academic, political, and policy-making scenes in the last two decades. This tool, associated with strategic planning, offers integrated solutions for improving
the ecological connectivity and urban resilience of open spaces, especially those affected by processes
of urban sprawl, the abandonment of agriculture, and the territorial fragmentation of habitats and
traditional agricultural landscapes. In spite of the advantages of GI, its design and implementation
face a range of challenges and limitations. In this context, this paper has two objectives: Firstly,
to address a critical review of recent literature on the subject, which, among other things, highlights
the lack of references to the role of peri-urban agriculture in GI planning, and the positive contribution
made by peri-urban agriculture to the local food supply and other regulatory and cultural services.
Secondly, to propose a methodology to contribute to integrating practical GI planning in metropolitan
regions to maximize the activation of traditional agricultural landscapes and the improvement
of landscape connectivity in metropolitan regions for the reconnection of rural-urban relationships
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Ferrer Jiménez, Daniel
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Mata Olmo, Rafael
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