Abstract
Green Infrastructure (GI) is defined as a network of natural and semi-natural areas that need to be planned in a strategic way to deliver ecosystem services (ESs). This definition highlights two important concepts: multifunctionality and connectivity. Multifunctionality concerns the capacity of a single area to deliver several benefits and to perform multiple functions. The concept of connectivity is often linked to ecological corridors (ECs), defined as spatial elements that connect habitats, allowing species migration and genetic exchange. Consequently, the spatial identification of GIs and ECs in spatial planning is a noteworthy topic. In this study, we propose a three-step methodological approach to identify a multifunctional GI and ECs connecting Natura 2000 sites (N2Ss) in the case study of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Italy.
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Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.
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Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds, substantially amended several times up to the current codified version, i.e. Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds.
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InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) is a free software program. Further information is available online at http://data.naturalcapitalproject.org/nightly-build/invest-users-guide/html/index.html. Accessed 05 Oct 2017.
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The CORINE Land Cover taxonomy is described in European Environment Agency (1995).
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Linkage Mapper is a GIS tool that analyzes habitat connectivity. It is available online at http://www.circuitscape.org/linkagemapper. Accessed 05 Oct 2017.
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Where: x is the set of independent variables; X is the matrix of observations concerning the independent variables.
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This essay is written within the Research Program “Natura 2000: Assessment of management plans and definition of ecological corridors as a complex network”, funded by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia for the period 2015–2018, under the provisions of the Call for the presentation of “Projects related to fundamental or basic research” of the year 2013, implemented at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR) of the University of Cagliari, Italy.
Ignazio Cannas, Sabrina Lai, Federica Leone and Corrado Zoppi have jointly made substantial contributions to the essay’s conception, design, and conclusions. Sabrina Lai has taken care of Sect. 1 (Introduction); Federica Leone has taken care of Sect. 2; Sabrina Lai and Federica Leone have jointly taken care of Sect. 3; Ignazio Cannas has taken care of Sect. 4; Corrado Zoppi has taken care of Sect. 5.
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Cannas, I., Lai, S., Leone, F., Zoppi, C. (2018). Integrating Green Infrastructure and Ecological Corridors: A Study Concerning the Metropolitan Area of Cagliari (Italy). In: Papa, R., Fistola, R., Gargiulo, C. (eds) Smart Planning: Sustainability and Mobility in the Age of Change. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77682-8_8
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