Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas
By T. Elmqvist, H. Setälä, S. Handel, S. Ploeg, J. Aronson, J. Blignaut, E. Gómez‐Baggethun, David Nowak, Jakub Kronenberg, R.W.J. de Groot. 2015
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Cities are a key nexus of the relationship between people and nature and are huge centers of demand for ecosystem services and also generate extremely large environmental impacts. Current projections of rapid expansion of urban areas present fundamental challenges and also opportunities to design more livable, healthy and resilient cities (e.g. adaptation to climate change effects). We present the results of an analysis of benefits of ecosystem services in urban areas. Empirical analyses included estimates of monetary benefits from urban ecosystem services based on data from 25 urban areas in the USA, Canada, and China. Our results show that investing in ecological infrastructure in cities, and the ecological restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, and woodlands occurring in urban areas, may not only be ecologically and socially desirable, but also quite often, economically advantageous, even based on the most traditional economic approaches.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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- The origin of urban communities: From the regional species pool to community assemblages in city (2020, background): “Urban biodiversity provides important ecosystem services for human well-being such as, for example climate and water regulation, noise reduction, air filtration and recreational and aesthetic value (Bolund & Hunhammar, 1999; Elmqvist et al., 2015; Tzoulas et al., 2007).”
- From landscapes of utopia to the margins of the green urban life (2018, background): “In addition, literature in urban ecology highlights the widespread ecological benefits and ecosystem services from urban green spaces (Elmqvist et al. 2015)—from carbon sequestration to the removal of air pollutants to the prevention of carbon emissions (Baró et al.”