Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment

JA Salmond, M Tadaki, S Vardoulakis, K Arbuthnott… - Environmental …, 2016 - Springer
Urban tree planting initiatives are being actively promoted as a planning tool to enable
urban areas to adapt to and mitigate against climate change, enhance urban sustainability …

A review of urban ecosystem services: six key challenges for future research

C Luederitz, E Brink, F Gralla, V Hermelingmeier… - Ecosystem …, 2015 - Elsevier
Global urbanization creates opportunities and challenges for human well-being and
transition towards sustainability. Urban areas are human-environment systems that depend …

Advancing understanding of the complex nature of urban systems

T McPhearson, D Haase, N Kabisch, Å Gren - Ecological Indicators, 2016 - Elsevier
Cities and urbanized regions are complex, dynamic, and highly integrated systems linking
social, ecological, and technical infrastructure domains in ways that create deep challenges …

Welcoming different perspectives in IPBES

GD Peterson, ZV Harmáčková, M Meacham… - Ecology and …, 2018 - JSTOR
A recent paper by Díaz et al.(2018a) presented “nature's contributions to people,” a
conceptual framework developed within the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on …

The value of urban ecosystem services in New York City: A spatially explicit multicriteria analysis of landscape scale valuation scenarios

P Kremer, ZA Hamstead, T McPhearson - Environmental Science & Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Mapping, modeling, and valuing urban ecosystem services are important for integrating the
ecosystem services concept in urban planning and decision-making. However, decision …

Integrating green infrastructure and ecosystem services in land use planning. Results from two Finnish case studies

M Di Marino, M Tiitu, K Lapintie, A Viinikka… - Land Use Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Scientific advancements on Green Infrastructure (GI) and Ecosystem Services (ES)
have been conducted by experts from several disciplines such as landscape ecology …

Analysing scale, quality and diversity of green infrastructure and the provision of Urban Ecosystem Services: A case from Mexico City

R Calderón-Contreras, LE Quiroz-Rosas - Ecosystem services, 2017 - Elsevier
Fostering urban resilience requires a social-ecological systems approach that considers the
ecological and social feedbacks of cities. In this paper we argue that Urban Ecosystem …

Assessment of green infrastructure performance through an urban resilience lens

X Fu, ME Hopton, X Wang - Journal of cleaner production, 2021 - Elsevier
Green infrastructure (GI) is widely recognized for reducing risk of flooding, improving water
quality, and harvesting stormwater for potential future use. GI can be an important part of a …

Implications of urban growth and farmland loss for ecosystem services in the western United States

J Narducci, C Quintas-Soriano, A Castro… - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
A projected 60% of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2030. Urbanization has
major impacts on ecosystem services, and therefore human well-being, but not all groups …

A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities

E Andersson, S Borgström, D Haase… - Ecology and …, 2021 - diva-portal.org
Understanding opportunities as well as constraints for people to benefit from and take care
of urban nature is an important step toward more sustainable cities. In order to explore …