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

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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.