Relación entre la provisión de servicios de los ecosistemas y su demanda en el municipio de Bilbao
- Lorena Peña
- Elena González
- Borja Pérez
- Miren Onaindia
- Ibone Ametzaga
- Igone Palacios
- Jasone Unzueta
- Beatriz Fernández de Manuel
ISSN: 1887-9810
Year of publication: 2017
Issue: 8
Pages: 15-27
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Forum de Sostenibilidad = Forum Iraunkortasun aldizkaria = Sustainability Forum journal
Abstract
The contribution of green spaces to the mitigation of climate change and to people’s well-being, which are two of the seventeen sustainable development goals, has become apparent in numerous studies over recent years. This owes to the services that these green spaces perform, including air purification, water run-off retention, reduction of the heat island effect (cooling), carbon storage, noise damping and recreation. The purpose of this study is to analyse whether the provision of these services in different neighbourhoods of Bilbao meets demand. To do so, provision has been quantified using the indicators proposed by Derkzen et al., (2015), and demand by the percentage of residents in each neighbourhood. The results indicate that neighbourhoods lying in the centre of Bilbao have a high level of demand but low provision of services, to the contrary of the situation in the peri- urban areas. In conclusion, the neighbourhoods that have a lower provision of services and a high demand are a priority when it comes to planning new green spaces (parks, courtyard gardens, green roofs, urban allotments etc.) within municipal town planning and improving the existing ones, in order to increase connectivity, fostering the development of a green infrastructure.