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Raffaele Lafortezza

Researcher at University of Bari

Publications -  147
Citations -  6285

Raffaele Lafortezza is an academic researcher from University of Bari. The author has contributed to research in topics: Green infrastructure & Ecosystem services. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 136 publications receiving 4617 citations. Previous affiliations of Raffaele Lafortezza include University of Cambridge & University of Hong Kong.

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Go greener, feel better? The positive effects of biodiversity on the well-being of individuals visiting urban and peri-urban green areas

TL;DR: In this paper, a field study assessed benefits and subjective well-being reported by urban residents visiting four different typologies of green spaces, selected on the basis of urban forestry expert criteria according to a 2 × 2 factorial design.
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Benefits and well-being perceived by people visiting green spaces in periods of heat stress.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results of a study conducted in Italy and the UK with the general goal to contribute to the theoretical and empirical rationale for linking green spaces with well-being in urban environments.
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Green Infrastructure as a tool to support spatial planning in European urban regions

TL;DR: In this article, an updated conceptual framework for the development, management, and analysis of green infrastructure networks by focusing on contemporary drivers nested together at the territorial level and with a prominent role for temporal considerations is presented.
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Urban forests, ecosystem services, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions: Nexus or evolving metaphors?

TL;DR: This paper conducted a review of the literature to better understand the origin, trends, and evolution of these metaphors and their institutional and contextual interpretations, and found that ecosystem services appeared in 2006, green infrastructure in 2007 and nature-based solutions (NBS) in 2015.