Connectivity between ecosystem contributions and the future of our cities

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https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.10058

Abstract

Some studies include the need for territorial planning to prioritize people's well-being and health. Thus, ecosystem services are essential but urban planning is not adequately evaluating this potential. The coexistence of planning and these considerations allows identifying the land that, having a greater ecosystem contribution, lack adequate protection by planning. This allow their anthropization and, therefore, making that territory and its inhabitants less resilient. The Community of Madrid is taken as a study case, obtaining a cartography that identifies and delimits the different ecosystems. This is possible thanks to the spatial integration of qualitative data on land cover and its environmental characteristics. With this study seeks its greater preservation, evaluating its state by analyzing the main pressures and links between its conditions, quality, and biodiversity, and how it affects the ability of the ecosystem to provide its services.

Keywords: Resilience, ecosystem services, territory, ecosystem vulnerability

Author Biography

Rafael Córdoba Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Arquitecto urbanista por la ETSAM (2005) y profesor asociado al Departamento de Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2012). Ha realizado diferentes trabajos de investigación relacionados con indicadores de sostenibilidad y desarrollo urbano dentro del Instituto Juan de Herrera de la ETSAM. Investigador por la UPM tras desarrollar los estudios del Programa Periferias, Sostenibilidad y Vitalidad urbana, actualmente desarrolla trabajos de ordenación del territorio y planificación urbanística en distintos puntos de la geografía española, trabajando fundamentalmente para la administración pública. Sus trabajos de investigación han sido presentados en distintos congresos de ámbito nacional e internacional y publicados en varios libros y revistas académicas.

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2022-01-19

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SIIU2021_BARCELONA