Urban Green Infrastructures and Social Shared Choices: A Deliberative Valuation Method

Abstract:

A Green Infrastructure is a network of natural and semi-natural areas, strategically planned with other environmental features, designed and managed so as to provide a wide array of eco-systemic services and benefits. Because of its different multifunctional and potentially conflicting features, designing a Green Infrastructure is a complex operation which requires an integrated approach involving the local community, so as to locate the priority uses of the local area in a transparent, integral and cooperative way. In order to provide a valuation model being consistent with the design of a Green Infrastructure, the paper proposes a deliberative multi-dimensional valuation method supporting shared public choices and open to the proactive participation of the community.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 641-642)
• Pages: 1082-1086
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.641-642.1082
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Saverio Miccoli*, Fabrizio Finucci, Rocco Murro
• Keywords: Community Involvement, Deliberative Evaluation, Green Infrastructure, Multidimensional Assessment

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