Abstract
Ecosystem Services (ESs) contribute to the human well-being, and, according to the recent classification of the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES), they can be categorised into provisioning, regulating and cultural services.
This paper investigates functions and benefits of ESs, especially regulating services such as Carbon sequestration and Water purification, which are essential to life. In Carbon sequestration, the atmospheric CO2, produced by human activities, is removed from the atmosphere through natural processes and stored by terrestrial ecosystems in the soil. In Water purification, nutrients and other pollutants (i.e. metals, oils and sediments), introduced into inland waters and coastal and marine ecosystems, are processed and filtered out through water flow along forests, riparian zones and wetland.
Land-use changes can have important effects on both Carbon sequestration and Water purification services.
The aim of this paper is to identify benefits of the Natura 2000 Network to ESs in urban context; for this purpose we focus on a case study in the context of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). The Natura 2000 Sites involve a thirty percent of the metropolitan land area and the results of the assessments of Carbon sequestration and Water purification show that areas including Natura 2000 Sites are highly potentially suitable to contain both ESs.
The knowledge of the potential distribution and the quantity of ESs is crucial and can lead the decision-makers to a new planning approach, which is the key for sustainable urban development.
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InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) is a free of cost software product, licensed under the BSD open source licence. InVEST is developed by the Natural Capital Project (NCP), whose partners are: the Woods Institute for the Environment and Department of Biology of Stanford University; the Institute on the Environment of Minnesota University; the Nature Conservancy; and, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). InVEST-related documentation is available online at http://data.naturalcapitalproject.org/nightly-build/invest-users-guide/html/index.html [accessed April 10, 2017].
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http://www.sardegnageoportale.it/index.php?xsl=1594&s=40&v=9&c=8936&na=1&n=100 [accessed June 19, 2017].
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Data were extracted by the Database Survey of Sardinia (DBSS) Agris, made by the Agency in collaboration with the Laore Agency and the Universities of Cagliari and Sassari.
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These are derived: from the surveys conducted for the project “Charter of the land units and land use capability – First Lot” (2011–2013) by: Agris Sardinia for Muravera-Castiadas area; Laore Sardinia for the Arzana and Nurra south area; University of Cagliari for the Pula-Capoterra area and University of Sassari for Nurra area north and south, funded by the Department EE.LL. Finance and Planning of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, and from the historical archives of aforementioned institutions on occasions of other studies and surveys.
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Sardegna geoportale is available at http://www.sardegnageoportale.it/index.php?xsl=1594&s=40&v=9&c=8936&na=1&n=100 [accessed June 19, 2017].
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Piano di Gestione del Distretto Idrografico della Sardegna, available at http://www.regione.sardegna.it/index.php?xsl=510&s=304398&v=2&c=6703&t=1&tb=6695&st=7 [accessed June 19, 2017].
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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.
Maddalena Floris and Daniela Ruggeri have made substantial contributions to the paper’s conception and design, introduction, discussion and conclusions.
Maddalena Floris has taken care of Sect. 2.2; Daniela Ruggeri has taken care of Sect. 2.3.
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Floris, M., Ruggeri, D. (2017). Planning with Ecosystem Services in the Natura 2000 Network of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10409. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62407-5_28
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