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How to Reconcile the Ecosystem Service of Regulating the Microclimate with Urban Planning Projects on Brownfields? The Case Study Bayerischer Bahnhof in Leipzig, Germany

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Little is known about the effect of inner-city brownfield re-use on Ecosystem Services (ESS). Can Ecosystem Services be maintained and at the same time new planning projects realized? In this text, we analyze the effects of brownfield-re-use on ESS through comparing the current situation with a potential revitalization scenario referring to the empirical example of Bayerischer Bahnhof in Leipzig, Germany. We focus on the Ecosystem service of regulating the microclimate and combine microclimate modelling tools with urban planning research

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Acknowledgements

This work was done as a cooperation of the integrated projects “urban transformations” (T13) and “from models to predictions” (T53) and partly financed through the program integration fund of the UFZ. The author Carolin Helbig thanks the Earth System Knowledge Platform (ESKP) for the funding.

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  1. Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Florian Koch & Uwe Schlink

  2. Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Florian Koch

  3. Department of Environmental Informatics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Lars Bilke & Carolin Helbig

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan Klotz

  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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    Cornelia Baessler

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Koch, F., Schlink, U., Bilke, L., Helbig, C. (2019). How to Reconcile the Ecosystem Service of Regulating the Microclimate with Urban Planning Projects on Brownfields? The Case Study Bayerischer Bahnhof in Leipzig, Germany. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_24

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