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The state of the art of local GI implementation in the Alps : deliverable 1.3.1Danilo Bevk,
Thomas Böhm,
Mita Drius,
Danijel Kablar,
Blaž Koderman,
Katharina Lautze,
Mojca Pintar,
Luana Silveri, 2024, final research report
Abstract: In the last century, human population growth and industrial development have been leading to the depletion of natural resources, to ecosystem degradation and to a worrying change in the global climatic conditions. One of the most striking forms of degradation is the fragmentation of ecosystems and habitats because of land use change, which poses a serious threat to biodiversity. A fragmented ecosystem cannot provide the human population with the fundamental ecosystem services (so-called ES hereafter), such as pollination, food, air quality, carbon sequestration, flood management, water treatment, local climate regulation, soil erosion prevention and so on. As the negative impacts of fragmentation have become apparent, the importance of maintaining ecological connectivity within ecosystems and landscapes at different levels of naturalness, including between protected areas and at the rural-urban interface, has been increasingly recognised.
Keywords: green infrastructure, Alps, Interreg, ecosystem services
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