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The PES-EMOTIVE project led by Dr. Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and ICREA Prof Esteve Corbera has published 2 Policy Briefs that highlight some key results of the project and provide policy recommendations.
Public green spaces provide essential benefits for people' health and well-being while triggering environmental attachment and stewardship, eventually resulting in a positive impact on the ecosystem as a whole. However, public green spaces benefits are usually unequally distributed across society. This study aims to understand the perceived benefits people obtain from public green spaces and assess their distribution, including spatial and temporal patterns of use.
While the uneven distribution of street tree benefits in Barcelona favors elderly residents in particular and partially compensates for the lack of larger green spaces in several districts, it is clear that street trees must be accompanied by other sustainable mobility measures to advance urban environmental health and justice.
A recent study published by ICTA-UAB (LASEG & BCNUEJ) researchers in the scientific journal “Landscape and Urban Planning” examines the amount and typology of urban nature within and around 324 primary schools of Barcelona from an equity perspective. Results show that school-based exposure and access to urban nature is markedly unequal across the Catalan capital.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives often aim to incentivize the joint adoption of forest protection and sustainable management practices. This research in Chiapas, Mexico, shows the limits of PES when parachuted into a context of uneven land tenure, weak collective action and contested leaderships.
Prof. Kai Chan from the University of British Columbia visited LASEG at ICTA-UAB in December 2019 to discuss the relevance of relational values in the face of non-market food production, environmental conflict and virtual communities.
The PES-EMOTIVE project led by Dr. Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and ICREA Prof Esteve Corbera has published 2 Policy Briefs that highlight some key results of the project and provide policy recommendations.
A recent study published by ICTA-UAB (LASEG & BCNUEJ) researchers in the scientific journal “Landscape and Urban Planning” examines the amount and typology of urban nature within and around 324 primary schools of Barcelona from an equity perspective. Results show that school-based exposure and access to urban nature is markedly unequal across the Catalan capital.
Public green spaces provide essential benefits for people' health and well-being while triggering environmental attachment and stewardship, eventually resulting in a positive impact on the ecosystem as a whole. However, public green spaces benefits are usually unequally distributed across society. This study aims to understand the perceived benefits people obtain from public green spaces and assess their distribution, including spatial and temporal patterns of use.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives often aim to incentivize the joint adoption of forest protection and sustainable management practices. This research in Chiapas, Mexico, shows the limits of PES when parachuted into a context of uneven land tenure, weak collective action and contested leaderships.
While the uneven distribution of street tree benefits in Barcelona favors elderly residents in particular and partially compensates for the lack of larger green spaces in several districts, it is clear that street trees must be accompanied by other sustainable mobility measures to advance urban environmental health and justice.
Prof. Kai Chan from the University of British Columbia visited LASEG at ICTA-UAB in December 2019 to discuss the relevance of relational values in the face of non-market food production, environmental conflict and virtual communities.