2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brera Holdings PLC (Nasdaq: BREA) the only publicly-traded multi-club ownership football (American soccer) focused company today announced that the Fourth Annual FENIX Trophy tournament an international sporting event owned by the Company and organized by its Brera FC Milan-based football club which features European non-professional clubs each paired with a charity partner recognized for its social opened with a match between Polish team KP Bòr and their Serbian guests at the Miejski Stadium in the town of Oborniki Slaskie which was won by FK Miljakovac by a score of 1-2 was followed by a post-game reception embodying the spirit of camaraderie inherent to the event This edition of the FENIX Trophy marks an expansion featuring 16 teams and also features a round-trip knockout format in which the clubs face each other with two-legged home and away ties This stage will run from September until December (1st round) and from January until April (2nd round) “The tournament champions values such as hospitality creating an atmosphere that resonates well beyond the final whistle,” said Brera chief executive Pierre Galoppi “We hope fans will join us in celebrating the unifying power of sport and this beautiful sport at the FENIX Trophy.” Galoppi added that although the tournament’s finances are currently individually managed by its constituent teams strike commercial deals to manage all of the tournament’s finances The tournament will continue in 16 different cities in 14 countries around Europe please visit the websites of the tournament teams or visit the box office at the tournament venues won the previous FENIX Trophy with a 4-0 win over Czech side Prague Raptors (ph Kamil Wilkowski) Brera Holdings PLC (Nasdaq: BREA) is focused on expanding its social impact football (American soccer) business by developing a global portfolio of emerging football and other sports clubs which will provide increased opportunities to earn tournament prizes and provide other professional football and sports-related consulting services The Company seeks to build on the legacy and brand of Brera FC the first football club acquired by the Company in 2022 known as "The Third Team of Milan," is an amateur football association building an alternative football legacy since its founding in 2000 The Company owns the trademarked FENIX Trophy Tournament a nonprofessional pan-European football competition recognized by UEFA inaugurated in September 2021 and organized by Brera FC "FENIX" is an acronym for "Friendly European Nonprofessional Innovative Xenial." BBC Sport has called the FENIX Trophy "the Champions League for amateurs," and ESPN covered the 2024 FENIX Trophy finals named Brera FC as its award recipient for "Social Impact Through Soccer," recognizing the Company's focus at an international level with this distinction the Company expanded to Africa by establishing Brera Tchumene FC a team then admitted to the Second Division League in Mozambique Brera Tchumene FC won its post-season tournament and the Company acquired 90% of the European first-division football team Fudbalski Klub Akademija Pandev a country with participation rights in two major Union of European Football Association ("UEFA") competitions Brera acquired a strategic stake in Manchester United PLC a portion of which was subject to a tender offer by Sir Jim Radcliffe and sold at a 74% realized gain the Company completed the acquisition of a majority ownership in the Italian Serie A1 women's professional volleyball team UYBA Volley S.s.d.a.r.l the Company assumed control of Bayanzurkh Sporting Ilch FC which became Brera Ilch FC when the football season resumed in March 2024 the Company announced the launch of a proactive search for an Italian Serie B football club target designed to bring multi-club ownership of the highest tiers of professional sports ownership to mass investors through the Company's Nasdaq-listed shares the Brera Holdings Advisory Board was established with MLS founder and World Cup director Alan Rothenberg luxury lifestyle executive Massimo Ferragamo sports business leaders Paul Tosetti and Marshall Geller This communication contains "forward-looking statements." 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Volume 8 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.579838 we are facing a global change associated with the rapid population growth and natural resources demand whose impacts are accumulated in space and during the time humanity could be identified as Planet's Ecological Bigfoot The anthropopressure disturbed the Earth's natural regulatory capacity which could be noticed by the unavailability of freshwater the aim of the study was the implementation of the environmental carrying capacity (ECC) approach for more sustainable spatial management especially in the context of developing residential areas in the city-region The research evaluates the spatial policy established by the municipalities of the city and its surroundings and presents alternative scenarios of residential areas development The alternative scenarios were built using excluded and restricted environmental zones to protect productive ecosystems The impact of residential areas designed in spatial documents and scenarios has been assessed using the carbon footprint (CF) and biocapacity (BC) indicators within the environmental carrying capacity (ECC) framework The lifestyle archetypes of the city's residents and its suburban zone were used as the main input for the assessment of CF and the natural areas required to assimilate human consumption The comparison of CF and BC allowed verifying the consumed vs available resources and to quantify the state of the environment the research indicated the potential areas for the future development of human settlements the potential number of inhabitants in residential areas was assessed the impact of inhabitants was quantified using the ECC approach the surface of natural areas required for CF assimilation was assessed The proposed approach could be relevant for spatial management It could provide a management tool and policy instrument for the sustainable development of human settlements it proposes implementation of environmental zones for allocation of land-use for housing purpose in a more sustainable manner which is currently not used within the ECC assessment the results obtained in this research would allow the selection of land use for housing purposes based on the scenario with the least environmental impact The proposed approach could be relevant for spatial management and spatial policy development It could provide a management tool and a policy instrument for decision-makers and other relevant stakeholders current and planned areas for housing (Right) There are ten SAC areas crossing the study area (codes PLH020036 PLH020045); five of them cross Wrocław city three of them cross the area of Długołeka and Miekinia municipalities and other municipalities intersect with two or one of these areas There are also two SAP areas (PLB020002 and PLB020008) that appear in the area of Wrocław city (PLB020002) The Natural-Landscape Complex is located in Wrocław city The Protected Landscape Area (Trzebnica Hills Wzgórza Trzebnickie) cross municipalities Długołeka while the Landscape Park (Bystrzyca Valley Landscape Park Park Krajobrazowy Dolina Bystrzycy) goes through the Wrocław city and Katy Wrocławskie There are two ecological arable lands—one in Oborniki Slaskie municipality and the second one in Miekinia municipality six nature reserves are located in the study area: three in the Wrocław city and two in Miekinia municipality Despite the natural conditions, Wrocław's suburban zone is known by its urban character, allocation of the most land for housing development, strong immigration of people from the central city, single-family housing dominance, long distances from the city center, homogenization of society, and development of new residential housing on former agricultural land (Szewrański et al., 2013) In the period 1998–2009, one of the spatial policy objectives assumed the allocation of land use for housing development corresponding to the needs of 1,740,000 new inhabitants. The designation of an area for such number of people seemed to be impossible. Especially, the population growth in this area was not constant. Wrocław and its suburban zone were inhabited by 748,000 people in 1998, 741,000 in 2002, and 755,000 in 2009 (Szewrański et al., 2013) the total population of Wrocław amounts to 640,648 people which together with 10 neighboring communes accounts for 820,851 inhabitants (state as for 31.12.2018) The highest population density in residential areas could be noted for Wrocław–6,242 persons per square kilometer and the lowest one for Siechnice–593 The growth of the population between 1998 and 2018 was also not significant the future objectives of spatial policy for this area still provide for the allocation of land for new housing development The analyses of data have shown that the most land use for housing purpose would be allocated in Wrocław city—ca Czernica—between 1,600 and 1,000 ha and in the other—Kostomłoty This study would verify the allocation of land for housing purposes It would assess the potential impact of current and planned residential areas defined within official planning documents of municipalities alternative scenarios would be created and a similar assessment would be provided The assessment would quantify the potential number of inhabitants in these areas and their impact on the environment using the ECC approach The research has evaluated the spatial policy for the development of residential areas The use of ECC allowed to assess the potential impact of current and future residential areas planned within the framework of the official planning document “a study of land use conditions and directions” (in short a study; plural—studies) of each municipality according to Act on Spatial Planning and Development (org Ustawa o planowaniu i zagospodarowaniu przestrzennym) is a planning document established for the entire area of the municipality where the general description of the spatial policy and local development principles are provided The study is not an act of local law; however its principles are mandatory and should be taken into account in the preparation of the local spatial development plans The research provided alternative scenarios to municipal studies regarding the development of residential areas The alternative scenarios were created by the implementation of environmental zones and identification of overlaps between them and residential areas planned within studies The research implemented the following environmental zones: • excluded environmental zones represented by the protected areas (P) as national parks and 100-meter-long buffer zones from rivers and water reservoirs located in the territory of the landscape parks and protected landscape areas where in accordance with the Act on Nature Conservation (org construction of new buildings is prohibited; • restricted environmental zones represented by good quality soils (S) as reserves for urban agriculture, characterized by soil complex as “very good wheat complex”—the best, mostly black soils, where high yields of demanding plants are achieved (Szewrański et al., 2017) and flood-risk areas (F)—areas with a high probability of flooding occurring every 10 years—Q 10% (Szewrański et al., 2018) in case of identification of spatial conflicts residential areas have been assigned the current land use based on the Corine Land Cover data set (CLC) the ECC assessment was conducted for the following scenarios: • Base scenario—showing the planned land-use determined in the study of each municipality; • Scenario no. 1 P—showing the planned land use determined in the study of each municipality, excluding protected areas (identified by codes as POO, PSO, POF, PSF (Figure 2) representing the occurrence of given characteristics) and changing overlaps of the planned land use with the environmental zone into current land use determined in CLC2018; 2 PS—showing the planned land use determined in the study of each municipality excluding protected areas together with good-quality soils (identified by codes as POO OSF) and changing overlaps of planned land use with environmental zones into current land use determined in CLC2018; 3 PF—showing the planned land use determined in the study of each municipality excluding protected areas together with flood-risk areas (identified by codes as POO OSF) and changing overlaps of the planned land use with environmental zones into current land use determined in CLC2018; 4 PSF—showing the planned land use determined in the study of each municipality excluding protected areas together with good-quality soils and flood-risk areas (identified by codes as POO PSF) and changing overlaps of the planned land use with environmental zones into current land use determined in CLC2018 The codes defined for excluded environmental zones represented by protected areas and restricted environmental zones characterized by good-quality soil reserves for urban agriculture and flood-risk areas The alternative scenarios have also, and perhaps most importantly, provided changes related to the reduction of areas designated for human settlements development. The residential areas are the basis for evaluating the potential number of inhabitants (using the surface of residential areas and the population density on these areas—see subchapter 2.2.2.), as well as for CF assessment using consumption characteristics of the residents of the study area (Figure 3) The framework of ECC assessment assuming the delimitation of an excluded environmental zone (represented by protected areas) and restricted environmental zones (represented by good quality soil reserves for urban agriculture and flood-risk areas) The proposed framework has made it possible to assess spatial policy in particular with regard to potential human impact on the environment as well as to propose alternative scenarios for the development of residential areas and choose the scenario with the lowest environmental impact—the lowest ECC the presented assessment could be divided into two parts: (1) assessment of CF for the current state using statistic data—as input for CF and ECC assessment of the future residential areas and (2) assessment of CF and ECC of the future residential areas based on studies and created scenarios This research uses the carbon footprint (CF) as input for ECC assessment of the future residential areas defined in studies (Base Scenario) and other alternative scenarios created based on environmental zone implementation The CF assessment was calculated according to lifestyle archetypes of the city's residents and its suburban zone The analysis used the consumption characteristics of the residents as the usage of water Thus in this research, the CF was calculated on the basis of the bottom-up approach for categories as CF of food, CF of housing, and CF of mobility (Świąder et al., 2020). Each category of CF had assigned components, as CF of food consumption; CF of sewage/liquid waste generation, CF of garbage/solid waste generation, CF of water use, CF of electricity use, CF of gas supply; CF of car use (Figure 4) Categories and components for bottom-up CF assessment (Left) The conversion of the given component into CF (Right) The CF of the given component was assessed based on the number of the population, resource exploitation, or waste generation and recalculated into CO2 or CO2eq (Table 1): Equations for the CF assessment of a given component Each value representing the carbon dioxide (CO2) or carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq) was converted into the area needed to sequestrate it (Świąder et al., 2020) based on the global carbon dioxide sequestration rate expressed in global hectares per ton of CO2 [gha/tCO2] and Equivalence Factor (EQF) The calculated area represented the CF of a given component The CF of the given component divided by the number of population represents CF per capita which was an input for calculation of potential CF of residential areas in different scenarios the assessment of the CF of residential areas required a quantification of population the future number of inhabitants in each scenario was assessed by multiplying the surface of territory designed for housing development and population density at residential areas (average density was calculated using CLC2018—codes No CFTiSi–CF in total of i-component in i-scenario [gha]; PSi–number of population in i-scenario; CFi–CF per capita of i-component in i-scenario [gha] The BC was calculated according to National Footprint Accounts standards (Lin et al., 2016) for the planned land use defined within studies and developed scenarios The BC was calculated according to five land-use types (infrastructure assigned to them Yield Factors (YF) and Equivalence Factors (EQF) An–the area of given land use type [ha]; YFn–the yield factor for given land use type [-]; EQFn–the equivalence factor for given land type [-] The CF assessment at the local level requires the selection of the baseline year understood as the newest year for which most of the statistical data was available (Moore et al., 2013). Therefore, in this study, the baseline year for evaluating the current CF was 2016. Data used for analysis were obtained from multiple data sources: national database, local government units, scientific articles, or reports (Table 2) The data obtained from various sources required the verification of their accuracy The non-spatial data were adjusted to adequate units and some assumptions had to be undertaken according to the lack of precise local data in the case of the food consumption component two data sets have been used: (I) average monthly consumption of selected foodstuffs per capita in households in Lower Silesia voivodeship region and (II) average monthly consumption of selected foodstuffs per capita in households by a class of locality (referred after as n-class of locality) as (i) Polish cities larger than 500,000 in the population (as Wrocław) (ii) municipalities lower than 20,000 in the population (as Oborniki Slaskie and (iii) municipalities larger than 20,000 and lower than 90,000 in the population (as Katy Wrocławskie the weighted average was calculated as follows: AFi–the annual weighted average amount of a given consumed food in kg (or l) per inhabitant of i-municipality [kg]; WLn–the weight according to the population by n-class of the locality; AFiLn–the annual average amount of i-food in kg per inhabitants by n-class of the locality; WV–the weight according to the population of the region (voivodeship); AFnV–the annual average amount of a given consumed food in kg (or l) per inhabitants of voivodeship; Ii–the number of inhabitants of i-municipality; In–the number of inhabitants in all municipalities in Poland assigned to n-class of the locality; IV–the number of inhabitants of the region (voivodeship) The data regarding local solid waste generation—garbage generation component—was available only for Wrocław city there were regional data used and the following assumption has been adopted: Ani–the annual amount of waste generation of n-fraction per inhabitants of i-municipality; AnV–the annual amount of waste generation of n-fraction per inhabitants of the region (voivodeship); The local data of annual average electricity use per inhabitant were available for Wrocław city, Katy Wrocławskie, Siechnice, and Oborniki Slaskie. Thus, for other municipalities, the average annual for the district (org. powiat)—the unit of territorial self-government and administrative division of the second degree in Poland—was used. The superior unit is the voivodeship, the subordinate unit is the municipality (Kaczmarek, 2016) the data on the number of cars by fuel type was available for Wrocław city and districts for municipalities other than Wrocław Cni–the number of cars by n-fuel type for i-municipality; Cndi–the number of cars by n-fuel type for i-district; Idi–the number of inhabitants of i-district The research required also the preparation of spatial data The dataset representing excluded and restricted environmental zones required some maintenance and processing Environmental zones were delimitated according to three characteristics: protected areas (together with delimitated 100-meter zones from rivers and lakes located on the landscape parks and protected landscape areas) good-quality soils as reserves for urban agriculture Each record of a dataset representing protected areas (P) good-quality soil reserves for urban agriculture (S) and flood-risk areas (F) has been assigned a value (P datasets have been consolidated and coded (POO; OSO The character “O” corresponded to the lack of a given characteristic in the given area had to be updated by newly established residential areas the residential areas indicated in studies were blended with CLC2018—codes No The BC assessment dataset also required preparation the BC is quantified for six categories as infrastructure there was no land use type defined as “marine fishing ground” in the study area the study focuses on the allocation of land use for human settlements development the infrastructure land-use type was divided into infrastructure (residential areas) and infrastructure (other) The research evaluated the spatial policy established by the municipalities of the city and its surroundings and presented alternative scenarios of residential area development The base for ECC assessment was the allocation of land use for human settlements development Each scenario presents existing residential areas as well as the possible areas for human settlements development (hereinafter referred to as the “possible future residential areas”) Possible future residential areas have been presented in accordance with the assumptions of the land-use division defined within the studies of each municipality (Base Scenario) as well as alternatively presented in Scenarios No Alternative land use for residential areas was developed based on verified overlaps between the possible future residential areas (defined in the study of each municipality) and environmental zones Identified overlaps have been transferred to their previous land use status–land-use conditions Moreover, the differences between possible future residential areas (defined in studies) and possible future residential areas (hereinafter referred to as the “differences in planned residential areas”) were presented (Figure 5) and differences in planned residential areas in each scenario The possible future residential areas and differences in planned residential areas The analysis for Scenario 2—PS—did not show any differences in the planned residential areas only for the Czernica municipality which also has poor-quality soils that could be excluded from the analysis The highest decrease in areas designed for human settlements was quantified for Zórawina These municipalities had the most areas with good-quality soils There could be noticed a decrease in planned residential areas by 58.4% or 882.5 ha for the Zórawina municipality 42.7% or 685 ha for Katy Wrocławskie This means that new residential areas were planned mainly on good-quality areas than on nature-protected areas or buffers from water bodies located in these areas 3—PF—showed the highest decrease in planned residential areas for Wrocław city−60.9 ha the decrease of residential areas could be mainly connected with the occurrence of flood-risk areas The similar designation of flood-risk areas for residential areas was noted for the Katy Wrocławskie municipality 1 showed that 19.2 ha from 49.3 ha designed for residential areas was overlapping with areas vulnerable to flood The Wrocław city planned to spend 2.5 ha (from 60.9 ha marked as PF) of flood-risk areas for the development of residential areas 4 indicated the greatest change for Zórawina municipality The decrease in planned residential areas was quantified as 897.2 ha which represents the decrease of 59.4% to planned residential areas in Base Scenario this decrease could be associated mainly with the restriction of good-quality soils (882.5 ha from 897.2 ha) The following one with the highest decrease was quantified for the Kobierzyce municipality−687.9 ha—which could be also connected mainly with the presence of good-quality soils (685 ha from 687.9 ha) The lowest change in Scenario PSF could be observed for Oborniki Slaskie−16.4 ha The decrease in areas designated for housing municipalities of Obornik Slaski and Długołeka resulted mainly from the overlapping of planned housing areas with good-quality soils the decrease in planned residential areas may be related mainly to the planned location in areas vulnerable to flood The total value of CF for Wrocław and its suburban zone was assessed as 3,652,211 gha, whose per capita represents the value of 4.523 gha. The highest impact on the total value of CF (see Supplementary Material) was quantified for electricity use (66.6%) The lowest percentage represented such components as gas (3.6%) The CF per capita was largest for Kobierzyce municipality−5.178 gha per capita per year (Figure 7) The following ones were Czernica−5.053 gha—and Długołeka−5.012 gha The lowest value was quantified for Siechnice municipality−3.136 gha per capita as in the case of an average value of CF for the study area the highest values were assessed for electricity The CF per capita according to categories and components of the bottom-up approach The difference between BC and CF showed that an additional 5,858,170 gha would be needed to sustain human impact if the planned studies were fully implemented This means that there would be needed additional 2,003,657 ha of forest area (more than the area of Lower Silesia voivodeship where Wrocław and its suburban zone is located at 1,994,670 ha) or 6,716,716 ha of grazing/green area (more than the area of three neighboring voivodeships to Lower Silesia−5,322,630 ha in total) representing the minimum 11% of the area required for biodiversity restoration these values would increase to 2,224,059 ha for forest area and 6,716,716 ha for green areas The analyses showed that if the planning assumptions of the study had been fulfilled in 100%, all municipalities would have been considered as ecological debtors (Figure 8) A more detailed analysis showed that the highest increase in CF was noticed for Katy Wrocławskie—the CF increased by 272% compared to the current state The subsequent ones were Zórawina with 198% growth in CF There could be observed that Wrocław CF would increase by 55% Although Wrocław was not recorded as the municipality with the highest CF growth if the planned development would be implemented it would require the largest physical area to sustain ecological deficit (4 419 060 gha−75% of the total value of the ecological deficit estimated for the study area) This high ecological deficit would be connected with the increase of Wrocław city inhabitants from 637,683 (state as at 31.12.2016) to 987,157 in case of planned land-use implementation The compensation of quantified ecological deficit would require 1,508,363 ha of forest land and in case of including an additional 11% for biodiversity restoration−1,674,283 ha (84% of Lower Silesia area) If the human impact were to be compensated by green areas it would require 4,555,296 ha or 5,056,379 ha if the restoration of biodiversity would be guaranteed These values correspond to 2.3–2.5 of the area of Lower Silesia voivodeship The top part of the figure shows also the percentage change of CF (the difference between the current state and Base Scenario) The bottom part of the figure shows the physical area needed to sustain ecological deficit assessed based on planned land use The results showed that the highest impact on CF reduction had the implementation of restricted environmental zones represented by good-quality soils as reserves for urban agriculture (S). It could be seen in the results of CF in total obtained for Scenario No. 2—PS and Scenario No. 4—PSF (see Supplementary Material) The research verified the percentage change in CF and BC values according to the Base Scenario The highest overall decrease of CF were quantified for Scenarios PS and PSF as −13.31% and −14.39% there should be indicated that Wrocław city Kobierzyce or Katy Wrocławskie) where a lot of big companies and investments are located which definitely deviate from the average assessed for the whole study area The analysis quantified that the highest percentage change in the value of CF was noticed for Zórawina municipality—decrease in CF by 62.18% in Scenario No. 4 and 60.55% in Scenario No. 2. The second municipality, where the CF value decreased by environmental zones implementation, was Kobierzyce municipality with a decrease of 34% in CF value in Scenario No. 2 and Scenario No. 4 (Figure 9) The subsequent ones were Siechnice and Katy Wrocławskie municipalities with a reduction of CF by 19–23%—depending on the scenario What is worth underlining is the fact that even changes < +0.01% in BC had an impact on CF reduction There was also a noted reduction of BC in created scenarios according to the Base Scenario as in the case of municipalities of Wrocław The percentage changes in the values of CF and BC for a given municipality in the given Scenario The changes lower than ±0.01% were presented in the table as 0.0000 The total area of forest land for CF assimilation and restoring biodiversity was assessed as 1,998,929 ha for Scenario No If forest land was to be assessed separately for Wrocław city and its suburban zone 493,000 ha of forest land for assimilation of CF from municipalities representing the suburban zone of Wrocław (in case of Scenario No The forest land assessed within other scenarios was quantified as ca It means that the physical area needed for sustaining human impact of the suburban zone would represent ca 25% of the total value quantified for the study area The highest total value of forest land needed for sustaining total CF from the human impact was quantified for Wrocław city (Figure 10) as 1,505,989 ha in Scenario No 1—P (same value as in case of Base Scenario) and 1,505,032 ha for Scenario No 4—PSF were similar to each other with values circa 1,462,000 ha The assessed values of forest land needed for sustaining CF of Wrocław would require an area equal to 73–78% of the Lower Silesia region surface an additional 11% for biodiversity restoration would represent ca The absolute values of physical natural areas required for sustaining total CF for a given municipality in a given scenario The lighter colors represent less physical natural areas needed for CF assimilation The darker color shows more physical natural areas required for CF assimilation If the forest land would be recalculated into grazing/green area there would be needed from 4,414,662 ha (in case of Scenario No 4—PSF) to 4,548,126 ha (in case of Scenario No which represents 83–85% of the total area of three neighboring voivodeships to Lower Silesia and Oborniki Slaskie could be verified as the biggest ecological debtors from all municipalities in the suburban zone of Wrocław there could be noticed that the required physical natural area required for CF assimilation for these suburban municipalities is 94% lower (as in the case of Kobierzyce) than for Wrocław city Currently, there would be a required 1.69 Earths to sustain the needs of the global population (Global Footprint Network, 2019b) The results quantified for Wrocław city and its suburban zone showed that there would be a required 2.77 of Earths if everybody had the same CF as an average inhabitant of the study area The quantified number of Earths for Wrocław and its suburban zone was 0.05 higher than that quantified for Poland−2.72 The highest number of Earths needed for sustaining human impact was quantified for Czernica and Zórawina municipalities—value higher than 3.0 The lifestyle of inhabitants of these areas could be similar to the lifestyle of inhabitants in countries as the Russian Federation (3.17 of Earths) The number of Earths quantified for the study area could be even greater especially that the CF represent 60% of EF it can be concluded that the future spatial policy focuses on the development of residential areas in those municipalities where growth patterns have already been observed it would mean that residential development will develop faster within the suburban zone than within the city boundaries It also indicates that the phenomenon of urban sprawl would intensify The results also showed the biggest decrease in the value of CF in case of alternative land use for residential purposes under Scenario 2—PS and Scenario 4—PSF The differences in CF in alternative scenarios in each municipality arise from natural conditions and verified spatial conflicts between environmental zones and planned residential areas designed within studies in the case of Wrocław and its suburban zone new residential areas were planned in studies mainly on good-quality soils or flood-risk areas it would allow the allocation of land use for housing purposes by combining the planned allocation of land use in the planning documents with ecological zones and on the other the quantification of ECC using BC and CF as well as the surface of natural areas needed for the assimilation of humanity CF The implementation of environmental carrying capacity together with environmental zones would allow to increase the biodiversity and natural potential of the area as well as decrease the human impact on the environment The implementation of environmental zones for spatial management process could also be a base for spatial conflict verification which could be understood as a designation of new residential areas on areas providing ecosystem services (as good-quality soils areas of nature protection forms or within their buffer zones) or on areas vulnerable to flood Such spatial decision could decrease the natural potential of an area and reduce the quality of life of residents The data analyzed in this study is subject to the following licenses/restrictions: Some of datasets presented in this study are included in the article/Supplementary Material. 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