Highlights•Cities are a centers of demand for ecosystem services and with projected
doubling of urban populations there will be an accelerating demand of these …

Global urbanization creates opportunities and challenges for human well-being and
transition towards sustainability. Urban areas are human-environment systems that depend …

Recent major global environmental initiatives toward a more sustainable society are the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the Paris …

While technological progress has fostered the conception of an urban society that is
increasingly decoupled from ecosystems, demands on natural capital and ecosystem …

Urbanisation is one of the major driving forces behind the formation of today's land use
systems. It almost always involves the conversion of land use from non-urban to urban uses …

The current review aimed to explore the association between urban greenspaces and health
indicators. In particular, our aims were to analyze the association between publicly …

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …

This research aims to assess the influence of coastal cities around the world. The main
goals are focused on quantifying the urbanization process in coastal areas. Also, the …

Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming
decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of …

The patterns of biodiversity changes in cities are now fairly well established, although
diversity changes in temperate cities are much better studied than cities in other climate …