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Collaborative project: Valorisation of ecosystem services of urban horticulture as part of urban green infrastructure in municipal development planning - subproject A (UGI-Plan)
Project
Project code: 2818905A20
Contract period: 01.04.2022
- 31.03.2024
Budget: 162,376 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: cultivation, forecast, water (water protection, water supply system), climate (climate relevance, climate protection, climate change), horticulture, urban agriculture, building/housing, data collection, information-communicationtechnology
In urban areas, a considerable inner-city densification can be observed, often with a decrease in ecosystem services (ESS). This trend is counteracted by urban gardening, which has a long history in Germany in the form of allotment gardens and has received a major boost in recent years, also through innovative garden forms. However, this has so far only been reflected to a limited extent in municipal planning, which is also due to the fact that the ecosystemic value of urban gardens cannot yet be sufficiently taken into account in municipal planning due to a lack of planning tools. The UGI-Plan project aims to close this gap by providing GIS-based software for the quantification of UGI-ESS, especially for urban gardens. The associated UGI databases will include a wide range of information, e.g. from spontaneous vegetation to cultivated plants as well as their management. Naturally, an extension to all natural areas of Germany is planned. The UGI planning tool is intended to provide the user with a broad database of land use options. The approach of the software-based application is to determine the ESS for a newly defined georeferenced area (object) in the space-time mosaic on the basis of the existing surrounding land use. Ideally, the supra-regional use by nature conservation authorities as well as municipal planning authorities and agricultural enterprises would be desirable for a successful implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy and the German Sustainability Strategy.
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Subjects
- Crop Production
