Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review

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• 作者：Konstantinos Tzoulas ; Kalevi Korpela ; Stephen Venn ; Vesa Yli-Pelkonen ; Aleks ; ra Kaź ; mierczak ; Jari Niemela ; Philip James
• 关键词：Public health ; Human well-being ; Green Infrastructure ; Urban ecosystem ; Ecosystem health
• 刊名：Landscape and Urban Planning
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：20 June 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：81
• 期：3
• 页码：167-178
• 全文大小：454 K

文摘

Europe is a highly urbanised continent. The consequent loss and degradation of urban and peri-urban green space could adversely affect ecosystems as well as human health and well-being. The aim of this paper is to formulate a conceptual framework of associations between urban green space, and ecosystem and human health. Through an interdisciplinary literature review the concepts of Green Infrastructure, ecosystem health, and human health and well-being are discussed. The possible contributions of urban and peri-urban green space systems, or Green Infrastructure, on both ecosystem and human health are critically reviewed. Finally, based on a synthesis of the literature a conceptual framework is presented. The proposed conceptual framework highlights many dynamic factors, and their complex interactions, affecting ecosystem health and human health in urban areas. This framework forms the context into which extant and new research can be placed. In this way it forms the basis for a new interdisciplinary research agenda.