[HTML][HTML] Aligning nature-based solutions with ecosystem services in the urban century

RP Remme, M Meacham, KE Pellowe, E Andersson… - Ecosystem Services, 2024 - Elsevier
In an increasingly urbanized world, the concepts of ecosystem services and nature-based
solutions can help tackle grand challenges. However, ambiguity in their definitions and in …

A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services

T McPhearson, EM Cook, M Berbés-Blázquez… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
As rates of urbanization and climatic change soar, decision-makers are increasingly
challenged to provide innovative solutions that simultaneously address climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Nature-based solutions as nodes of green-blue infrastructure networks: A cross-scale, co-creation approach

J Langemeyer, F Baró - Nature-based solutions, 2021 - Elsevier
While nature-based solutions have become foundational to sustainable urban and
landscape planning schemes at multiple landscape scales, there is a risk that previous …

[HTML][HTML] A typology for urban green infrastructure to guide multifunctional planning of nature-based solutions

L Jones, S Anderson, J Læssøe, E Banzhaf… - Nature-Based …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Urban Green Infrastructure (GI) provides multiple benefits to city inhabitants and
can be an important component in nature-based solutions (NBS), but the ecosystem …

Growing cities depend on ecosystem services

DE Ervin, D Brown, H Chang… - Solutions: For a …, 2012 - pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu
Many studies have documented the growing fragility of a majority of the globe's ecosystems.
Policymakers and resource managers often frame such ecosystem challenges as primarily …

[PDF][PDF] Building capacity for mainstreaming nature-based solutions into environmental policy and landscape planning

MV Balzan, J Tomaskinova, M Collier… - Research Ideas and …, 2020 - riojournal.com
Nature-based solutions (NBS) is a term often used to refer to adequate green infrastructure
that provides multiple benefits to society whilst addressing societal challenges. They are …

From classical water-ecosystem theories to nature-based solutions—Contextualizing nature-based solutions for sustainable city

K Krauze, I Wagner - Science of the total environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Growing interest in the concept of nature-based solutions (NBS) raises the question of its
applicability as a broadly-understood approach to resource management and spatial …

Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature

BL Keeler, P Hamel, T McPhearson, MH Hamann… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Urban nature has the potential to improve air and water quality, mitigate flooding, enhance
physical and mental health, and promote social and cultural well-being. However, the value …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing urban ecosystem services to prioritise nature-based solutions in a high-density urban area

MV Balzan, G Zulian, J Maes, M Borg - Nature-Based Solutions, 2021 - Elsevier
Nature-based solutions have emerged as a concept for integrating ecosystem-based
approaches whilst addressing multiple sustainable development goals. However …

[HTML][HTML] Seven lessons for planning nature-based solutions in cities

N Frantzeskaki - Environmental science & policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Nature-based solutions are proliferating in European cities over the past years as viable
solutions to urban challenges such as climate change, urban degeneration and aging …