Geosystem Services for Subsurface Planning in Sweden: A Pilot Survey
Paper in proceeding, 2024

Being a complement to ecosystem services (ES), geosystem services (GS) is a novel concept that helps identify and understand the contributions of the diversity of geological structures and processes of nature to human wellbeing. A pilot survey was carried out to Swedish municipalities in order to: (i) in a systematic way investigate if and how they currently approach GS in their spatial planning processes, and (ii) analyze and follow up responses for further improvement of the questionnaire for a Sweden-wide survey. None of the ten out of 26 responding municipalities currently use the term GS in their spatial planning processes. Some GS are already considered in municipal spatial planning processes in Sweden, though the term GS is currently not used. No clear patterns of including GS in spatial planning were however observed, except for three out of twenty GS. Social and child impact assessments and the Swedish standard on Biodiversity survey, which were the most frequently used methods for including ES in the municipal spatial planning processes in Sweden, could potentially be extended to GS.

Pilot surveys

Geological structures

Geological process

Subsurface planning

Planning process

Novel concept

Swedishs

Ecosystem services

Geosystems

Spatial planning

Author

Yevheniya Volchko

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics

T. Soderqvist

Holmboe & Skarp AB

Emrik Lundin Frisk

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics

Paula Lindgren

Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU)

Lorena Melgaço

Lund University

Marilu Melo Zurita

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Fredrik Mossmark

Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU)

Victoria Svahn

City of Gothenburg

Olof Taromi Sandström

Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU)

Jenny Norrman

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

23662557 (ISSN) 23662565 (eISSN)

Vol. 471 1181-1184
9789819712564 (ISBN)

18th Conference of the Associated Research Centers for the Urban Underground Space, ACUUS 2023
Boulevard, Singapore,

UNDER: Geosystem services underneath for sustainable communities and improved spatial planning practices

Formas (2021-00057), 2021-09-01 -- 2025-08-31.

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

DOI

10.1007/978-981-97-1257-1_155

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