Understanding the term green infrastructure: origins, rationales, semantic content and purposes as well as its relevance for application in spatial planning

A Seiwert, S Rößler - Land Use Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently the term green infrastructure has come to shape professional and scientific debate,
political strategies and practical approaches concerning green space development …

Assessing and quantifying offered cultural ecosystem services of German river landscapes

J Thiele, C Albert, J Hermes, C von Haaren - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
River landscapes offer diverse cultural ecosystem services. Providing more information on
the quantity that river landscapes provide in terms of offered cultural ecosystem services …

Multiscale environmental heterogeneity in a large river-floodplain system

G Mayora, P Scarabotti, B Schneider… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
River-floodplain systems host very high biodiversity and provide a great variety of ecosystem
services due largely to their high environmental heterogeneity, which is strongly dependent …

[HTML][HTML] Sparing and sharing land for maintaining the multifunctionality of large floodplain rivers

T Erős, Z Bányai - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Large floodplain rivers (LFRs) are among the most threatened ecosystems on Earth and
their utilization is expected to grow. Therefore, the need to develop more effective spatial …

Design features of constructed floodplain ponds influence waterbird and fish communities in northern New Zealand

J Garrett‐Walker, KJ Collier, A Daniel… - Freshwater …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ponds can provide important refuges for aquatic biota on developed floodplains and are
increasingly being constructed in an effort to enhance native biodiversity and ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] A reintroduced ecosystem engineer species may exacerbate ongoing biological invasion: Selective foraging of the Eurasian beaver in floodplains

E Juhász, K Katona, Z Molnár, I Hahn, M Biró - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Species reintroductions aim to re-establish populations of locally extinct, often keystone
species. As a consequence of the reintroduction and protection of the Eurasian beaver …

Perspectives of land evaluation of floodplains under conditions of aridification based on the assessment of ecosystem services

D Lóczy, G Tóth, T Hermann, M Rezsek… - Hungarian …, 2020 - iris.unica.it
Global climate change has discernible impacts on the quality of the landscapes of Hungary.
Only a dynamic and spatially differentiated land evaluation methodology can properly reflect …

Effect of design factors for groynes on diversification of topography and restoration of ecosystems in straight and meandering streams

S Chung, D Choi, G Hwang, J Chung - Ecological Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated effectiveness induced by the installation of groynes in river for
protection of stream and restoration of ecosystem in Korea. The effect of different designs in …

Actionable knowledge for sustainability at the water-land nexus: an inquiry into governance and social learning in two river basins in Luxembourg

K Hondrila - 2020 - orbilu.uni.lu
The thesis offers in-depth empirical insights into diverse factors that foster or hinder
collective capacities of actors to address sustainability challenges at the water-land nexus. It …

Satellite imagery in water management and land use

L Piedelobo Martín - 2020 - gredos.usal.es
Nature-based solutions are increasingly relevant tools for spatial and environmental
planning, climate change adaptation (CCA), and disaster risk reduction (DRR). For this …