History and local management of a biodiversity-rich, urban cultural landscape

By Stephan Barthel, J. Colding, T. Elmqvist, Carl Folke. 2005

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Urban green spaces provide socially valuable ecosystem services. Through an historical analysis of the development of the National Urban Park (NUP) of Stockholm, we illustrate how the co- evolutionary process of humans and nature has resulted in the high level of biological diversity and associated recreational services found in the park. The ecological values of the area are generated in the cultural landscape. External pressures resulting in urban sprawl in the Stockholm metropolitan region increasingly challenge the capacity of the NUP to continue to generate valuable ecosystem services. Setting aside protected areas, without accounting for the role of human stewardship of the cultural landscape, will most likely fail. In a social inventory of the area, we identify 69 local user and interest groups currently involved in the NUP area. Of these, 25 are local stewardship associations that have a direct role in managing habitats within the park that sustain such services as recreational landscapes, seed dispersal, and pollination. We propose that incentives should be created to widen the current biodiversity management paradigm, and actively engage local stewardship associations in adaptive co-management processes of the park and surrounding green spaces.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions and Biological Attractions in Disaster Resilience (2012, result): “Social movements and ecosystem services–the role of social network structure in protecting and managing urban green areas in Stockholm.”
Ecosystem services as technology of globalization: On articulating values in urban nature (2013, background): “The protection of the Stockholm National Urban Park provides a thoroughly researched empirical case (Barthel et al., 2005; Borgström et al., 2006; Ernstson et al., 2010; Löfvenhaft et al., 2002; Lundberg et al.,2008).”
Insight, part of a Special Feature on Managing Surprises in Complex Systems Ecological and Human Community Resilience in Response to Natural Disasters (2010, background): “System boundaries are defined in urban systems on the scales of neighborhoods, towns, counties, or metropolitan areas (Alberti and Marzluff 2004, Elmqvist et al. 2004, Barthel et al. 2005) showing similar nesting of ecological structures, such as patches, stands, forests and biomes (Holling 2001).”
A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation (2014, methodology): “In some cases, this assessment was performed to attain information on the complexity of land management and implications for the provision of ES (Barthel et al. 2005) or assess concepts of land managers (Niemelä et al. 2010).”
Psychosocial Outcomes as Motivations for Visiting Nearby Urban Green Spaces (2012, unknown): “The higher density urban living that results in the loss of green spaces to development has potentially significant implications for citizens because of the importance of urban green spaces as nodes of contact with nature (Barthel, Colding, Elmqvist, & Folke, 2005 ).”
Social Movements and Ecosystem Services—the Role of Social Network Structure in Protecting and Managing Urban Green Areas in Stockholm (2008, background): “Important prerequisites for collaborative ecosystem management are fulfilled by the Ecopark movement (Barthel et al. 2005).”