Urban ecosystems provide many crucial services to cities and their residents, particularly in
adapting to the effects of climate change. Extensive research has been conducted in this …

Ecosystem services are crucial for urban resilience, climate change adaptation and
mitigation, and sustainable development. Incorporating these services in urban …

The world's urban population is expected to rise from 3.9 to 6.4 billion people between 2014
and 2050, with 90% of this increase in Asia and Africa (UN, 2014). While the impacts of …

Humans rely upon ecosystem services to regulate their environment and to provide
resources and cultural benefits. As the world's urban population grows, it becomes …

Nature within cities provides benefits for people known as urban ecosystem services. An
assessment of urban ecosystem services is growing in South America, a biodiverse and …

Access mechanisms can determine the benefits that people derive from a given ecosystem
service supply. However, compared to ecosystem service availability, access has received …

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 …

Green spaces are integral components of urban environments, as they provide numerous
health benefits to people. However, urban green spaces are often inequitably distributed …

With the rise of the ecosystem services concept, urban nature has gained significant value.
Numerous studies have been conducted to delineate both the dependent and independent …

Urbanization happens at the cost of global loss of biodiversity (Hoornweg et al. 2016) and is
causing profound transformations in global ecosystem functioning (McPherson et al. 2016) …