Urban ecosystem services assessment along a rural-urban gradient: a cross-analysis of European cities.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an assessment approach for ecosystem services in an urban context covering the local and the regional scale, which is applied to different European cities and demonstrate that core cities do not necessarily provide fewer ecosystem services compared to their regions and there were no patches found within the four case study cities where all of the indicators report very high performance values.
About: This article is published in Ecological Indicators.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 271 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban ecosystem & Ecosystem services.
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TL;DR: The current state of the art of ecosystem service science regarding spatial localisation, indication and quantification of multiple ecosystem service supply and demand is reviewed and discussed.
Abstract: The high variety of ecosystem service categorisation systems, assessment frameworks, indicators, quantification methods and spatial localisation approaches allows scientists and decision makers to harness experience, data, methods and tools. On the other hand, this variety of concepts and disagreements among scientists hamper an integration of ecosystem services into contemporary environmental management and decision making. In this article, the current state of the art of ecosystem service science regarding spatial localisation, indication and quantification of multiple ecosystem service supply and demand is reviewed and discussed. Concepts and tables for regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem service definitions, distinguishing between ecosystem service potential supply (stocks), flows (real supply) and demands as well as related indicators for quantification are provided. Furthermore, spatial concepts of service providing units, benefitting areas, spatial relations, rivalry, spatial and temporal scales are elaborated. Finally, matrices linking CORINE land cover types to ecosystem service potentials, flows, demands and budget estimates are provided. The matrices show that ecosystem service potentials of landscapes differ from flows, especially for provisioning ecosystem services.
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...Many studies on urban ecosystem services have been carried out recently (Larondelle & Haase 2013; Elmqvist et al. 2013; Bastian et al. 2012)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of UGS provisioning in Berlin, Germany in order to identify distributional inequities between UGS and population which are further discussed in light of variations in user preferences associated with demographics and immigrant status.
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TL;DR: In this article, a framework for mapping and assessing the relationships between ecosystem services (ES) capacity, flow and demand with a focus on the identification of unsatisfied demand is presented.
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TL;DR: The Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (URBES) research project as mentioned in this paper conducted case study and comparative research on urban biodiversity and ecosystem services across seven cities in Europe and the United States.
Abstract: Understanding the dynamics of urban ecosystem services is a necessary requirement for adequate planning, management, and governance of urban green infrastructure. Through the three-year Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (URBES) research project, we conducted case study and comparative research on urban biodiversity and ecosystem services across seven cities in Europe and the United States. Reviewing > 50 peer-reviewed publications from the project, we present and discuss seven key insights that reflect cumulative findings from the project as well as the state-of-the-art knowledge in urban ecosystem services research. The insights from our review indicate that cross-sectoral, multiscale, interdisciplinary research is beginning to provide a solid scientific foundation for applying the ecosystem services framework in urban areas and land management. Our review offers a foundation for seeking novel, nature-based solutions to emerging urban challenges such as wicked environmental change issues.
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TL;DR: In this paper, multiple ecosystem services and disservices were quantified using transferable indicators in order to detect areas for environmental improvement, and the set of spatially explicit indicators enables the detection of areas of low and high provision of ecosystem services.
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...Participatory decision aided by indicators nd visualizations should therefore enable conscious decisions owards reducing areas of low provision of services and reduce he impact of development of cities on the environment (Nelson t al., 2009; Kandziora et al., 2013; Larondelle and Haase, 2013)....
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...These findings also coincide with previous urban research (Larondelle and Haase, 2013)....
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