Abstract
In the last twenty years, the debate over ecosystem services (ES) has intensively increased thanks to the growing awareness of the relevance of ecological and environmental problems. Initiatives like the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment or The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity have brought the ES concept into the international policy agenda, in turn stimulating the research. As a result, many applications have led to a very strong advance in the ecological and biophysical analysis of ES. However, in the context of land-use changes and transformation planning, the implications of ES have been only partially explored. Starting from a real case study, the present paper shows a tentative to bridge the gap between ES evaluation and transformation planning. The free software called Simulsoil is considered in the study to quantify, at the same time, biophysical and economic values of eight ES. Apart from the specific results of the simulation, the application shows the role of these analyses to support the decision-making process and the definition of alternative scenarios. In particular, the results can support the concertation between public administrations and developers in the definition of shared actions or, eventually, the identification of compensation measures.
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Part of this work has been developed in the research project titled VALIUM (Valuation for Integrated Urban Management) that has been supported by the Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning - DIST of the Politecnico di Torino (I call 2017)
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Caprioli, C., Bottero, M., Zanetta, E., Mondini, G. (2021). Ecosystem Services in Land-Use Planning: An Application for Assessing Transformation Scenarios at the Local Scale. In: Bevilacqua, C., Calabrò, F., Della Spina, L. (eds) New Metropolitan Perspectives. NMP 2020. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 178. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48279-4_124
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