Green Infrastructure Development
The concept of green infrastructure (GI) offers a comprehensive approach for environmental sustainability with the network of multifunctional ecosystems providing positive ecological, economic and societal benefits. In our study, we showed a five step conceptual framework with a case study for Hungary to evaluate GI and spatially prioritise its development methods. The national ecosystem base map provided the input for the ecosystem state assessment, the first axis of the zone cube model. Assessment of ecosystem services, and the connectivity among natural ecosystems, all normalized to five levels, provided the other two axes of the zone cube model. Restoration targeting and prioritization further fine-tuned the selection of ecosystem preservation, enhancement and conversion areas.
Ecosystem
base map
Tanács,
E., Belényesi, M., Lehoczki, R., Pataki, R., Petrik, O., Standovár, T., ...
& Maucha, G. (2022). Compiling a high-resolution country-level ecosystem
map to support environmental policy: methodological challenges and solutions
from Hungary. Geocarto International, 37(25), 8746-8769.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2021.2005158
Ecosystem
condition assessment
Tanács,
E., Bede-Fazekas, Á., Csecserits, A., Fodor, L. K., Pásztor, L., Somodi, I.,
... & Vári, Á. (2022). Assessing ecosystem condition at the national level
in Hungary - indicators, approaches, challenges. One Ecosystem, 7, e81543. .
https://doi.org/10.3897/oneeco.7.e81543
Ecosystem
service assessment
Vári,
Á., Tanács, E., Tormáné Kovács, E., Kalóczkai, Á., Arany, I., Czúcz, B., ...
& Kovács-Hostyánszki, A. (2022). National Ecosystem Services Assessment in
Hungary: Framework, Process and Conceptual Questions. Sustainability, 14(19),
12847.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912847
Ecosystem
service synthesis
Tanács,
E., Vári, Á., Bede-Fazekas, Á., Báldi, A., Csákvári, E., Endrédi, A., ... &
Török, K. (2023). Finding the Green Grass in the Haystack? Integrated National
Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Condition in Hungary, in Support of
Conservation and Planning. Sustainability, 15(11), 8489.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118489
Green
infrastructure development
Szitár,
K., Bánhidai, A., Csecserits, A., Csőszi, M., Halassy, M., Kertész, M., ...
& Török, K. (2024). The zone cube model–A tool to operationalise green
infrastructure prioritisation. Landscape and Urban Planning, 243, 104976.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104976