There is a rapidly growing body of literature on the theory about the ecosystem service
concept and the practical assessment of ecosystem services in different contexts ranging …

The continuous growth in the number and size of urban areas along with an increasing
demand on resources and energy pose great challenges for ensuring human welfare in …

The awareness that natural and semi-natural ecosystems provide benefits to human society,
which are of great economic, ecological and socio-cultural value, can be dated back to the …

The concept of ecosystem services is an approach widely discussed to clarify and to assess
the dependence of human society on ecosystems and landscapes. In order to better …

This special issue brings together papers on the various perspectives on the value of urban
ecosystem services and discuss the potential of merging and synthesizing these …

More than half of the world's population lives in urban ecosystems. The United Nations has
projected that 28% of people worldwide will be concentrated in cities with at least 1 million …

Interest in urban ecosystem services has grown steadily over recent years (Haase et al.
2014), with politics promoting the enhancement of ecosystem service provision in urban …

Urban ecosystem service (UES) is becoming an influential concept to guide the planning,
design, and management of urban landscapes towards urban sustainability. However, its …

Abstract During the symposium" Ecosystem Services at the Landscape Scale" from the EU-
IALE conference 2009, several challenges for future research on approaches to use the …

Maintaining and improving ecosystem services in urban areas and human well-being are
essential for sustainable development and therefore constitute an important topic in urban …