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Valuing green infrastructure in an urban environment under pressure — The Johannesburg case
Alexis Schäffler,Mark Swilling +1 more
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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.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 266 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Green infrastructure & Ecosystem services.read more
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Challenges and strategies for urban green-space planning in cities undergoing densification: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of urban densification and compact city development on urban green space and its planning are discussed. But, the literature on the compact city approach often lacks specific suggestions for urban green spaces conservation and planning.
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From Multifunctionality to Multiple Ecosystem Services? A Conceptual Framework for Multifunctionality in Green Infrastructure Planning for Urban Areas
Rieke Hansen,Stephan Pauleit +1 more
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for the assessment of multifunctionality from a social–ecological perspective is proposed that can inform the design of planning processes and support stronger exchange between GI and ES research.
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Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the outstanding challenges and opportunities of growing cities on the continent of Africa to the conservation goals and practices and provide a synthesis of these supported by new analysis.
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Contributions of sociometabolic research to sustainability science
Helmut Haberl,Dominik Wiedenhofer,Stefan Pauliuk,Fridolin Krausmann,Daniel Müller,Marina Fischer-Kowalski +5 more
TL;DR: This Review outlines and systematizes major sociometabolic research traditions that study the biophysical basis of economic activity: urban metabolism, the multiscale integrated assessment of societal and ecosystem metabolism, biophysical economics, material and energy flow analysis, and environmentally extended input–output analysis.
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Urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services in sub-Saharan Africa
Marié J. du Toit,Sarel S. Cilliers,Martin Dallimer,Mark A. Goddard,Solène Guenat,Susanna F. Cornelius +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of research on urban green infrastructure and the associated ecosystem services in sub-Saharan African cities and identify seven overarching barriers and challenges to the sustainable delivery of ecosystem services.
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Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management
Carl Folke,S. R. Carpenter,Brian Walker,Marten Scheffer,Thomas Elmqvist,Lance Gunderson,C. S. Holling +6 more
TL;DR: Active adaptive management and governance of resilience will be required to sustain desired ecosystem states and transform degraded ecosystems.
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Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability
TL;DR: The capacity to transform at smaller scales draws on resilience from multiple scales, making use of crises as windows of opportunity for novelty and innovation, and recombining sources of experience and knowledge to navigate social-ecological transitions.
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The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions
TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-evolutionary model of socio-technical transitions is described in which regimes face selection pressures continuously and differentiated transition contexts determine the form and direction of regime change in response to these pressures.
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Managing ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology?
TL;DR: This research agenda discusses critical questions and key approaches in determining the various aspects of community structure that influence function in real landscapes, especially compensatory community responses that stabilize function, or non-random extinction sequences that rapidly erode it.
PERSPECTIVES Managing ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss critical questions and key approaches in four areas: identifying the important ecosystem service providers; determining the various aspects of community structure that influence function in real landscapes, especially compensatory community responses that stabilize function, or non-random extinction sequences that rapidly erode it; assessing key environmental factors influencing provision of services, and measuring the spatio-temporal scale over which providers and services operate.