Publications by authors named "Chiara Cortinovis"
Rapid urbanization in African metropolises like the Greater Asmara Area, Eritrea, poses numerous environmental challenges, including soil sealing, loss of vegetation cover, threats to protected natural areas, and climate change, among others. Mapping and assessing ecosystem services, particularly analyzing their spatial and temporal distribution is crucial for sustainable spatial planning. This study aims at mapping and analyzing ecosystem services hotspots and coldspots dynamics in the Greater Asmara Area to identify recent trends and opportunities for enhancing ecosystem services supply.
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- Geodesign enhances urban planning by managing collaboration among various knowledge holders, but there’s a lack of evidence about its effectiveness in facilitating this collaboration.
- This paper evaluates how geodesign supports knowledge co-production and examines the legitimacy and credibility of its outcomes in urban planning through a case study in Stockholm’s Skarpnäck district.
- Findings show that geodesign fosters communication and collective reasoning, but issues like data quality and model simplicity affect the perceived credibility of its outputs, suggesting that future work should focus on improving skills and integrated planning.
Global shocks, cascading disruptions, and (re-)connections: viewing the COVID-19 pandemic as concurrent natural experiments to understand land system dynamics.
Landsc Ecol
March 2023
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- * The study examines the pandemic's specific effects on various landscape contexts through six case studies spread over four continents, using socio-ecological resilience and telecoupling frameworks for analysis.
- * Findings indicate that the pandemic has had varied impacts depending on local conditions, and it serves as a "natural experiment" to explore how global shocks affect and reshape connections within and between land systems.
The mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services (MAES) is key to inform sustainable policy and decision-making at national and sub-national levels. Responding to the paucity of research in sub-Saharan Africa, we conduct a pilot study for Eritrea that aims to map and assess the temporal dynamics of key ecosystems and their services. We reviewed policy and legal documents, analyzed land cover changes and estimated the potential for ecosystem services supply through an expert-based matrix approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSimulating crowding of urban green areas to manage access during lockdowns.
Landsc Urban Plan
March 2022
During the COVID-19 emergency, cities around the world introduced measures to guarantee physical distancing that restricted access to urban parks and green areas, with potentially negative effects on citizens' health and wellbeing. This study aims at providing insights to manage access to urban green space in physical distancing times, when the risk of crowding should be avoided. Using the city of Trento (Italy) as a case study, the study simulates policy scenarios corresponding to different restrictions and assesses their effects on green space access and crowding.
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