Ecosystem infrastructure and urban resilience

Abstract

The growth of urban population, moving from rural to urban areas (UNFPA 2011), is going to increase soil loss and the exploitation of natural resources in cities environment. Notably, the impact of cities growth is the rise of greenhouse gases and the direct outgrowth of global warming (IPCC 2013). In order to this, the of soil loss reduction is one of the common goal fixed for facing climate change so that existing urban natural soil represents a key opportunity for creating new ecological infrastructure by which strength resilience of the urban environment. In such scenario, the paper deals with soil loss topic investigating the opportunities of increasing urban farming as strategy for the effective protection of urban evapotranspiring soils. The study considers the environmental asset of the city of Naples, Italy, through the overlay of maps and data leading to locate the agricultural potential of the existing green areas. This is the prime step of the study that have its main outcome in a set of design proposal for comparing alternative land use scenarios by which developing urban farming uses by means of worthy private and public partnership (PPP).