TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing landscape services as foundation for Green Infrastructure functionality
T2 - the case of the Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve
AU - Drius, Mita
AU - Sams, Katharina Theresa
AU - Knopper, Friedrich
AU - Hainz-Renetzeder, Christa
AU - Brandenburg, Christiane
AU - Wrbka, Thomas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Biosphere Reserves are considered as means for the people who live and work within them to attain a balanced relationship with the natural and semi-natural environment. Moreover, they contribute to the needs of society by showing a way to a more sustainable future. The Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve partly surrounds the city of Vienna and other minor settlements, representing a well-developed example of Green Infrastructure (GI) of great cultural and natural value. Its heterogeneous landscape offers a variety of landscape services (LS). In this work, we quantified and mapped the capacity of LS offered by the open land elements of Wienerwald. Starting from a high-resolution dataset, we selected suitable indicator classes, and scored each ecological and socio-cultural service through an expert-based capacity matrix. The subsequent analyses with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) focused on the intensity and density of LS capacities by developing an index useful for mapping GI functionality. The work provides an effective monitoring tool for the Reserve’s both ecological and socio-cultural sustainability performance. It also allows detecting resilient areas, by considering both the spatial distribution and the abundance of landscape elements.
AB - Biosphere Reserves are considered as means for the people who live and work within them to attain a balanced relationship with the natural and semi-natural environment. Moreover, they contribute to the needs of society by showing a way to a more sustainable future. The Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve partly surrounds the city of Vienna and other minor settlements, representing a well-developed example of Green Infrastructure (GI) of great cultural and natural value. Its heterogeneous landscape offers a variety of landscape services (LS). In this work, we quantified and mapped the capacity of LS offered by the open land elements of Wienerwald. Starting from a high-resolution dataset, we selected suitable indicator classes, and scored each ecological and socio-cultural service through an expert-based capacity matrix. The subsequent analyses with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) focused on the intensity and density of LS capacities by developing an index useful for mapping GI functionality. The work provides an effective monitoring tool for the Reserve’s both ecological and socio-cultural sustainability performance. It also allows detecting resilient areas, by considering both the spatial distribution and the abundance of landscape elements.
KW - capacity matrix
KW - ecosystem services
KW - green infrastructure
KW - landscape services
KW - Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve
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U2 - 10.3097/LO.202084
DO - 10.3097/LO.202084
M3 - Article
VL - 84
SP - 1
EP - 39
JO - Landscape Online
JF - Landscape Online
SN - 1865-1542
ER -