作者
Thomas Elmqvist, Heikki Setälä, SN Handel, Sander van der Ploeg, James Aronson, James Nelson Blignaut, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, DJ Nowak, Jakub Kronenberg, Rudolf de Groot
发表日期
2015/6/1
来源
Current opinion in environmental sustainability
卷号
14
页码范围
101-108
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Highlights
- Cities are a centers of demand for ecosystem services and with projected doubling of urban populations there will be an accelerating demand of these services.
- Rapid expansion of urban areas present fundamental challenges but there are also opportunities to restore ecological functions to design more liveable, healthy and resilient cities.
- We present estimates of benefits from urban ecosystem services based on comparison of 25 urban areas in USA, China and Canada.
- Our results show that across these 25 urban areas, investing in urban ecological infrastructure may often be economically advantageous.
Cities are a key nexus of the relationship between people and nature and are huge centers of demand for ecosystem services and also generate extremely large environmental impacts. Current projections of rapid expansion of urban areas present fundamental challenges and also opportunities to …
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