Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) have the potential to improve public health and wellbeing, address health inequities, and provide co-benefits for the environment, economy …
KT Lourdes, P Hamel, CN Gibbins, R Sanusi… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Unprecedented urban growth and extensive land use change especially in the Global South has placed increasing pressure on urban ecosystem services (UES). While there are …
AFM Zain, DO Pribadi… - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Urban areas play a key role in reaching global sustainability as they produce a high number of waste and emission, consume a lot of resources, and perform as the prime mover of …
Plastics are synthetic polymers known for their outstanding durability and versatility, and have replaced traditional materials in many applications. Unfortunately, their unique traits …
The climate mitigation potential of urban nature-based solutions (NBSs) is often perceived as insignificant and thus overlooked, as cities primarily pursue NBSs for local ecosystem …
Large‐scale reforestation can potentially bring both benefits and risks to the water cycle, which needs to be better quantified under future climates to inform reforestation decisions …
Nature-based solutions (NbS) have gained traction in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region over the last decade. While the benefits of NbS are established for most urban contexts …
Urban blue-green spaces hold immense potential for supporting the sustainability and liveability of cities through the provision of urban ecosystem services (UES). However …
Current conceptualizations of nature-based solutions have so far served to characterize— and reproduce—cost-effective remedies, particularly in cities of the global north. Yet nature …