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Urban forests and pollution mitigation: analyzing ecosystem services and disservices.
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Development of urban forest management alternatives that mitigate pollution should consider scale, contexts, heterogeneity, management intensities and other social and economic co-benefits, tradeoffs, and costs affecting stakeholders and urban sustainability goals.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 794 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecosystem services & Ecosystem management.read more
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Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the Anglo-American literature on urban green space, especially parks, and compared efforts to green US and Chinese cities and found that the distribution of such space often disproportionately benefits predominantly white and more affluent communities.
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Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize knowledge and methods to classify and value ecosystem services for urban planning and identify analytical challenges for valuation to inform urban planning in the face of high heterogeneity and fragmentation characterizing urban ecosystems.
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A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation
Dagmar Haase,Neele Larondelle,Erik Andersson,Martina Artmann,Sara Borgström,Jürgen Breuste,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Åsa Gren,Zoé A. Hamstead,Rieke Hansen,Nadja Kabisch,Nadja Kabisch,Peleg Kremer,Johannes Langemeyer,Emily Lorance Rall,Timon McPhearson,Stephan Pauleit,Salman Qureshi,Nina Schwarz,Annette Voigt,Daniel Wurster,Thomas Elmqvist +21 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that most UES studies have been undertaken in Europe, North America, and China, at city scale, but few study findings have been implemented as land use policy.
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Review on urban vegetation and particle air pollution – Deposition and dispersion
TL;DR: In this paper, a review revealed that design and choice of urban vegetation is crucial when using vegetation as an ecosystem service for air quality improvements, while low vegetation close to sources can improve air quality by increasing deposition.
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A systematic quantitative review of urban tree benefits, costs, and assessment methods across cities in different climatic zones
TL;DR: A quantitative review of 115 original urban tree studies, examining: (i) research locations, (ii) research methods, and (iii) assessment techniques for tree services and disservices, is provided in this paper.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework and typology for describing, classifying and valuing ecosystem functions, goods and services in a clear and consistent manner is presented. And a classification is given for the fullest possible range of 23 ecosystem functions.
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Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the challenges involved in applying ecosystem service assessment and valuation to environmental management and discuss some solutions to come to a comprehensive and practical framework.
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Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making
TL;DR: The concept of ecosystem services has become an important model for linking the functioning of ecosystems to human welfare Understanding this link is critical for a wide-range of decision-making contexts.
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The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values : Theory and Methods
TL;DR: The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values as mentioned in this paper provides an introduction to the principal methods and techniques of resource and environmental valuation to professional economists and graduate students who are not directly engaged in the field.