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Urban gardens, agriculture, and water management: Sources of resilience for long-term food security in cities
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In this paper, the authors discuss lessons for food security from historic and prehistoric cities and discuss the importance of food security as a key resilience facet for people living in cities, and the Chicago school of urban soc...About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 369 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food security & Urban ecosystem.read more
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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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Urban Ecosystem Services
Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Åsa Gren,David N. Barton,Johannes Langemeyer,Timon McPhearson,Patrick J. O’Farrell,Erik Andersson,Zoé A. Hamstead,Peleg Kremer +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the potential of urban ecosystem services for improving resilience and quality of life in cities and describe a range of valuation approaches (cultural values, health benefits, economic costs, and resilience) for capturing the importance of urban ecosystems.
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The potential of ‘Urban Green Commons’ in the resilience building of cities
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent findings on urban common property systems and relevant literature is presented, where the authors discuss the potential of urban green commons (UGCs) to manage cultural and biological diversity in cities.
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Principles and criteria for assessing urban energy resilience: A literature review
Ayyoob Sharifi,Yoshiki Yamagata +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for assessing urban energy resilience, identifying planning and design criteria that can be used for assessing energy resilience and examining the relationship of these criteria with the underlying components of the conceptual framework.
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Valuing green infrastructure in an urban environment under pressure — The Johannesburg case
Alexis Schäffler,Mark Swilling +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the importance of robust planning for green infrastructure in fast changing Southern African cities and explore green infrastructure through pairing insights of social-ecological resilience with perspectives on urban infrastructure transitions.
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