What is it about?
Understanding patterns of natural forest expansion in rural regions under the influence of urbanization processes is crucial for integrated spatial planning across the urban-to-rural gradient. As a matter of fact, forest expansion is the only natural process that may counteract the consumption of the ecosystem capital and ecosystems services of rural lands due to uncontrolled urban sprawl. The paper addresses this topic in the paradigmatic case study of the countryside of Rome (Italy), characterized by counter dynamics of forest expansion and suburbanization.
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Why is it important?
Integrated spatial planning strategies are outlined for the conservation of ecosystem capital and ecosystems services provided by forests, as major components of Rome's green infrastructure.
Perspectives
Results calls for future in-depth investigations on the quality of newly created or maintained forest resource stocks associated to different spatial pattern structures.
Piermaria Corona
CREA Research Centre for Forestry and Wood
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This page is a summary of: Natural forest expansion into suburban countryside: Gained ground for a green infrastructure?, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, January 2013, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2012.11.002.
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