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Urban Green Spaces: Comparison
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Please note this is a comparison between Version 2 by Lily Guo and Version 1 by Teodoro Semeraro.

n the context of urban land-use growth and the consequent impacts on the environment, green spaces provide ecosystem services for human health. The ecosystem services concept synthesises human–environmental interactions through a series of combined components of biodiversity and abiotic elements, linking ecological processes and functions. The concept of green infrastructure (GI) in the urban context emphasises the quality and quantity of urban and peri-urban green spaces and natural areas.

  • urban green roofs
  • community gardens
  • Urban ecology
  • Urban planning
  • ecosystem services
  • green infrastructure
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