@inproceedings{43dd8d7ea0784f29ae7d71c0c46814ce,
title = "Development and validation of a grid to evaluate ecosystem services of public urban green spaces in Porto (Portugal)",
abstract = "Cities must be pleasant and healthy spaces able to contribute to ecosystems regeneration and to bring closer Humans and Nature. Contemporary social and environmental issues present big challenges to promoting sustainable and resilient cities. The potential of ecosystem services of the urban green spaces is visible in the regeneration of urban environment, namely in the improvement of environmental and public health and social dimensions. This work presents the development and validation of a grid to evaluate ecosystem services of public urban green spaces. The grid was applied in 25 public urban green spaces in the city of Porto. Statistical tests were performed to evaluate the reliability and consistency of the tool. Results show that the grid is robust and reliable, thus its application is acceptable and could result in potential gains. These include the monitoring of ecosystem services of public urban green spaces to adjust them to citizen{\textquoteright}s social and environmental needs, namely if the tool will be adopted by the municipal department of green spaces and infrastructure management of the city of Porto, Portugal.",
keywords = "Ecosystem services, Sustainable development, Urban ecology, Urban green spaces, Validation study",
author = "Vidal, {Diogo Guedes} and Fernandes, {Cl{\'a}udia Oliveira} and Viterbo, {Lilian Monteiro Ferrari} and Helena Vila{\c c}a and Nelson Barros and Maia, {Rui Leandro}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Environmental Integration, EMCEI 2019 ; Conference date: 10-10-2019 Through 13-10-2019",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-51210-1_352",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030512095",
series = "Environmental Science and Engineering",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "2247--2252",
editor = "Mohamed Ksibi and Achraf Ghorbal and Sudip Chakraborty and Chamin{\'e}, {Helder I.} and Maurizio Barbieri and Giulia Guerriero and Olfa Hentati and Abdelazim Negm and Anthony Lehmann and J{\"o}rg R{\"o}mbke and {Costa Duarte}, Armando and Elena Xoplaki and Nabil Kh{\'e}lifi and Gilles Colinet and {Miguel Dias}, Jo{\~a}o and Imed Gargouri and {Van Hullebusch}, {Eric D.} and {S{\'a}nchez Cabrero}, Benigno and Settimio Ferlisi and Chedly Tizaoui and Amjad Kallel and Sami Rtimi and Sandeep Panda and Philippe Michaud and Sahu, {Jaya Narayana} and Mongi Seffen and Vincenzo Naddeo",
booktitle = "Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions",
address = "Germany",
edition = "2",
}