Descrizione del progetto
Dare nuova vita ai corsi d’acqua urbani per la sostenibilità delle città
Le città di tutto il mondo sono alle prese con le sfide legate ai cambiamenti climatici e alla rapida urbanizzazione. Le soluzioni basate sulla natura sono emerse in tal senso come approccio cruciale per affrontare queste problematiche urbane in modo olistico. Tuttavia, la comprensione delle modalità attraverso cui integrare efficacemente tali soluzioni nei paesaggi urbani in cui sono presenti corsi d’acqua dolce è tuttora un rompicapo. Alla luce di tali premesse, il progetto StreamScape, finanziato dall’UE, mira a colmare questa lacuna di conoscenza esaminando gli impatti sociali e ambientali esercitati dai corsi d’acqua urbani in qualità di essenziali soluzioni basate sulla natura, con l’obiettivo di proteggere la qualità dell’acqua, mitigare i rischi naturali, preservare la biodiversità e migliorare il benessere degli abitanti delle città. Concentrandosi su casi di studio svolti ad Aveiro e Coimbra, in Portogallo, StreamScape valuterà l’impatto generato dallo sviluppo urbano analizzando inoltre come il degrado di questi corsi d’acqua influenza la percezione pubblica.
Obiettivo
Cities around the world are undergoing significant transformations and are facing substantial challenges in the form of urban of climate change and ongoing urbanisation. The idea that we can work with nature to improve our cities is now seen as vital. The concept of Nature-Based Solutions has emerged to foster sustainable development by transversally addressing social, economic, and environmental urban challenges. Although the attention to nature-based solutions inclusion is an important pillar of urban sustainability, a clear understanding how they can be implemented in the freshwater landscape, is still missing, even in face of the relevance of the urban freshwaters to wellbeing of the population. This investigation aims to fill this gap, by analysing the social and environmental impacts of urban streams as important nature-based solutions from protecting water quality to reducing natural hazards while preserving biodiversity and providing health and wellbeing benefits to population. By selecting as case studies Aveiro and Coimbra, the research project aims to promote the urban streams and their multiple ecosystem services as important nature-based solutions to mitigate the effects of urbanization and climate change on aquatic ecosystems, in the human health and in the wellbeing of the population. The project will adopt the research strategies: to assess how urban development affect a capacity of urban streams to provide ecosystem services using well-established scientific methods and investigate how the degradation of urban streams reflects on the local residents’ perception of the ecosystem services in terms of benefits, health and wellbeing. In addition, thematic maps of ecosystem services identified in the urban streams will be produced to demonstrate the relevance of urban streams for ecological, cultural and social aspects and to demonstrate can this information can be useful to urban planning and governance.
Campo scientifico
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologylimnology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographynatural disasters
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinatore
3810-193 Aveiro
Portogallo