Planning Rural Landscapes Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services Nexus

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Planning rural landscapes: Green infrastracture and ecosystem services nexus

SECTION I. A COMMON GROUND FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN LANDSCAPE PLANNING

1 Concept of structure - Evolution, modalities, problems

Adriana Veríssimo Serrão

2. Landscape-system: Concepts and a methodology for sustainable planning

Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha

3.   Reconnecting networks - A methodological approach to green infrastructure design at a national scale

Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães

4. Restorating and conserving green infrastracture in practice

Luísa Franco, Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães

5. Private landowners’ logic and landscape transformation

Luísa Franco, Manuela Magalhães, Fernando Oliveira Batista

6. Dynamic landscapes: Geology and Geomorphology diversity

Maria Manuela Abreu, Selma Pena

SECTION II. LINKING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN RURAL LANDSCAPE

7. EUNIS habitat classification in mainland Portugal

Selma Pena, Pedro Xavier, Natália Cunha, Ana Müller

8. EUNIS Habitat Classification – Implementation at the national level for mainland Portugal

Pedro Xavier, Silvia Ribeiro, Jorge Capelo, Selma Pena, Natália Cunha

9. Water conservation ecosystem services at the river basin level

Selma Pena, Maria Manuela Abreu, Natália Cunha

10. Soil conservation ecosystem services at regional scales

Selma Pena, Maria Manuela Abreu, Nuno Cortez 

11. Habitat services for protected flora species in Portugal

Pedro Xavier, Sílvia Ribeiro, Selma Pena, Dalila Espirito-Santo, Natália Cunha

SECTION III. APPLICATIONS ACROSS SCALES AND COUNTRIES

12.  The Monsanto Urban Forest Landscape plan: Integrating nature-based solutions into Lisbon's metropolitan green infrastructure

Ana Müller, Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha, Selma Pena, Luísa Franco

13.  Noticing the landscape: Dwelling, abandoning, entangling

Francisca Lima, Annie Gallagher, Melisa Miranda Correa, Tiago Torres-Campos

14. Eco Account and state-wide Biotope Network Plan: Two interlocking planning instruments with high efficiency, and the importance of communication for sustainable implementation of these measures

Christian Küpfer

15.  Agroecosystems as green Infrastructure. Case Study in Milan (Italy)

Francesca Neonato

16.  Boughzoul (Algeria): A new sustainable town waiting for inhabitants

Fares Trodi, Karima Bencherif-Trodi

17.  Green Infrastructure in Spain 

Pedro Calaza-Martínez, Paloma Cariñanos

18.  Landscape transformation across scales: From municipal to local experience

Ana Müller, Manuela Magalhães, Natália Cunha, Rita Lopes, Paula Antunes

19.  Planning a sustainable, fire-resilient landscape on commons lands

Inês Adagói, Pedro Xavier, Selma Pena

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Biography

Natália Cunha, PhD in Landscape Architecture (ISA/ University of Lisbon) and MSc in Geographic Information Systems ( GIS) (IST Técnico/ University of Lisbon), she has been a researcher at LEAF - Instituto Superior de Agronomia since 2001. From 2004 to 2013, she worked as a teaching assistant at both ISA and IST and has published in peer-reviewed journals. She specialises in GIS-based landscape planning methodologies, contributing to several R&D projects related to green plans, ecological networks, GI land morphology, and flood risk mapping. Her postdoctoral research (CEEC/FCT, 2019–2024) focuses on integrating natural value protection into spatial planning. Recently, she co-coordinated LEAF/ISA project LandGi-nexus (2021– 2023).

Manuela Magalhães, PhD in Landscape Architecture (ISA/ University of Lisbon). She founded and coordinated the Research Centre for Landscape Architecture (CEAP) in 2001. She was Deputy to the Secretary of State for the Environment and Head of the Landscape Planning Studies Division. As Professor at the School of Agronomy and Instituto Superior Técnico (UL), she has coordinated several Green Municipal Plans and research projects, including the National Ecological Network and the Potential Landscape Plan of Portugal. A founding member and General Secretary of the Portuguese Landscape Architect Association (APAP). In 2022, she was awarded the Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles–Environment and Landscape career prize.