Edible green infrastructure: An approach and review of provisioning ecosystem services and disservices in urban environments

A Russo, FJ Escobedo, GT Cirella, S Zerbe - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently published green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and ecosystem disservices
(ED) literature have focused primarily on the supply of urban regulating and cultural …

Quantifying urban ecosystem services based on high‐resolution data of urban green space: an assessment for Rotterdam, the Netherlands

ML Derkzen, AJA Van Teeffelen… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The urban dimension of ecosystem services (ES) is underexposed, while the importance of
ES for human well‐being is nowhere as evident as in cities. Urban challenges such as air …

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 …

Advancing urban ecology toward a science of cities

T McPhearson, STA Pickett, NB Grimm, J Niemelä… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Urban ecology is a field encompassing multiple disciplines and practical applications and
has grown rapidly. However, the field is heterogeneous as a global inquiry with multiple …

Assessing the contribution of urban green spaces in green infrastructure strategy planning for urban ecosystem conditions and services

OY Liu, A Russo - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Maintaining ecosystem services is a key adaption option towards sustainable cities and
adaptive societies in securing citizens' health and wellbeing. This research investigates the …

Adapting cities for climate change through urban green infrastructure planning

R Ramyar, A Ackerman, DM Johnston - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
Green Infrastructure (GI) planning firstly developed as an integrated approach to ecological
and conservation planning. Then it has advanced and used in several disciplines such as …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling up nature-based solutions for climate-change adaptation: Potential and benefits in three European cities

C Cortinovis, P Olsson, N Boke-Olén… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many exemplary projects have demonstrated that Nature-based Solutions (NBS) can
contribute to climate change adaptation, but now the challenge is to scale up their use …

[PDF][PDF] Beyond city expansion: multi-scale environmental impacts of urban megaregion formation in China

W Zhou, W Yu, Y Qian, L Han, STA Pickett… - National Science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Environmental degradation caused by rapid urbanization is a pressing global issue.
However, little is known about how urban changes operate and affect environments across …

Resilience of and through urban ecosystem services

T McPhearson, E Andersson, T Elmqvist… - Ecosystem Services, 2015 - Elsevier
Cities and urban areas are critical components of global sustainability as loci of
sustainability progress and drivers of global transformation, especially in terms of energy …

Cultural ecosystem services as a gateway for improving urban sustainability

E Andersson, M Tengö, T McPhearson, P Kremer - Ecosystem services, 2015 - Elsevier
Quality of life in cities depends, among other things, on ecosystem services (ES) generated
locally within the cities by multifunctional blue and green infrastructure. Successfully …