Non-Urbanized Areas (NUAs) are outdoor places in urban context with significant amounts of vegetation, representing the last remnants of nature in metropolitan areas. As part of the agricultural and green infrastructure, NUAs provide a different range of Ecosystem Services, such as purification of air and water, mitigation of floods and droughts, re-generation of soil fertility, moderation of temperature extremes and enhancing of landscape quality. Like other natural ecosystems, NUAs today are endangered by urbanization processes, which are the main cause of their fragmentation and loss of...
Non-Urbanized Areas (NUAs) are outdoor places in urban context with significant amounts of vegetation, representing the last remnants of nature in met...