Adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture for Biophilic Service Provisioning Processes:Limitations and Possibilities

Many governments have recently shown strong interest in providing more green spaces for the benefit of their citizens. These benefits include recreational enjoyment, health and wellbeing, and biophilic assets/economy. This study analyses the nature of biophilic services as a pre-cursor for identifying high-level requirements of an ICT application for managing biophilic service-provisioning processes in biophilic cities. To achieve the above goal the study adopts a functionalist research paradigm that views biophilic services as part of the biophilic city the latter being a complex network of ecosystems that together promote and sustain solidarity, stability, and sustainability. With its macro-level orientation, the functionalist approach focuses on the needs of its citizens.