Smart Cities

Chapter 8Smart Ecology of Cities: Integrating Development Impacts on Ecosystem Services for Land Parcels

Marc Morrison¹, Ravi S. Srinivasan¹ and Cynnamon Dobbs²

¹M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

²Departamento de Ecosistemas y Medio Ambiente, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Chapter Menu

Introduction

Need for Smart Ecology of Cities

Ecosystem Service Modeling (CO₂ Sequestration, PM10 Filtration, Drainage)

Methodology

Implementation of Development Impacts in Dynamic-SIM Platform

Discussion (Assumptions, Limitations, and Future Work)

Conclusion

Objectives

• • To understand ecology in the context of the smart city.
• • To assess the state of accounting and model building in the realm of ecosystem service provision and target where more research needs to be done.
• • To develop specific methodologies for accounting for ecosystem service provision using GIS technology at a large scale.
• • To use a case study city/county in order to demonstrate the ability of current knowledge and tools to predict ecosystem service provision in an urban context.

8.1 Introduction

As the realities of climate change become more pressing, the availability of resources from far afield of city centers is destined to become more constrained. Increases in the frequency of severe weather events will mean that cities need to redact their focus toward accounting, preserving, and fully utilizing the resources within ...