Social-ecological dynamics, ecosystem services uses, and governance of green and blue infrastructure in urbanizing environments

绿色基础设施是具有其他环境特征(包括水体和农田)的自然和半自然地区的网络，旨在提供广泛的生态系统服务。面对目前正在观察和预测的快速城市化，特别是在亚洲，绿色基础设施已成为城市和农村生态系统的重要组成部分，支撑着人类福祉的多个方面。该项目(由五个工作包组成，WPS)旨在提供关于孟加卢市城乡交界处绿色基础设施的动态、价值、发展选择和治理的社会生态知识。WP1将在系统的文献回顾的基础上，确定城市化对农业系统(土壤、水质和农民的社会经济)的社会生态影响。WP2将引出生态、人口和社会经济驱动因素，在城乡环境的地块、村庄和区域尺度上塑造绿色基础设施的组成、配置和时间动态。WP3将通过基于网络的公众参与地理信息系统调查，绘制并量化绿色基础设施周围的生态系统服务使用和主观幸福感。WP4将探索绿色基础设施跨规模治理的变化。为此，它将分析城乡环境中绿色基础设施机构和治理变化的主要驱动因素、它们的行为者以及对绿色基础设施治理变化的影响。WP5将建立一个社会-生态框架，将社会和生态特征与城镇化下绿色基础设施的治理和管理成果联系起来。C03项目将从全球角度介绍研究单位的区域重点，以便对研究单位的见解进行有意义的解释和提升。它还将整合在各种项目中收集的社会生态数据集。总体而言，该项目将探索其有用性，并推进社会-生态系统框架，以了解绿色基础设施在城市化环境中的作用。

Green infrastructures are networks of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features (including waterbodies and farmlands) designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. In the face of the rapid urbanization that is currently observed and forecasted especially in Asia, green infrastructure has become an important component of both urban and rural ecosystems that underpins multiple aspects of human well-being. This project (composed of five work-packages, WPs) aims to provide social-ecological knowledge on the dynamics, values, development options, and governance of green infrastructure along the rural-urban interface in Bengaluru. WP1 will identify socio-ecological impacts of urbanization on agricultural systems (soil, water qualities, and farmers’ socio-economics) based on a systematic literature review. WP2 will elicit the ecological, demographic, and socio-economic drivers shaping composition, configuration, and temporal dynamics of green infrastructures at plot, village, and regional scales along rural-urban settings. WP3 will map and quantify the ecosystem services uses and subjective well-being around green infrastructures through a web-based Public Participation GIS survey. WP4 will explore the changes in cross-scalar governance of green infrastructure. For doing so, it will analyze data on main drivers of change in institutions and governance of green infrastructure in rural-urban settings, their actors and implications to change in governance of green infrastructures. WP5 will establish a social-ecological framework relating social and ecological characteristics to the outcomes in the governance and management of green infrastructures under urbanization. Project C03 will contextualize the regional focus of the research unit from a global perspective, allowing for a meaningful interpretation and upscaling of research units insights. It will also integrate the socioecological datasets collected in various projects. Overall, this project will explore the usefulness and advance the social-ecological systems framework for understanding the role of green infrastructure in urbanizing environments.