ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND LAND-USE PLANNING

Filippo Magni Davide Longato, Università Iuav di Venezia – Planning & Climate Change LAB in collaboration with Fondazione Cariplo


Since the end of the last century, the concept of ecosystem services has gained increasing acceptance both in terms of the importance of their assessment and their integration into decision support for natural resource management and spatial planning. It has made it possible to overcome the idea that environmental protection and economic development represent discordant and competing interests.
The theme of ecosystem services and their evaluation, which until recently was the exclusive object of study of the scientific-academic sphere, is…