A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation

By Dagmar Haase, Neele Larondelle, E. Andersson, Martina Artmann, S. Borgström, J. Breuste, E. Gómez‐Baggethun, Åsa Gren, Zoé A. Hamstead, Rieke Hansen and 11 more. Ambio, 2014

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Although a number of comprehensive reviews have examined global ecosystem services (ES), few have focused on studies that assess urban ecosystem services (UES). Given that more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, understanding the dualism of the provision of and need for UES is of critical importance. Which UES are the focus of research, and what types of urban land use are examined? Are models or decision support systems used to assess the provision of UES? Are trade-offs considered? Do studies of UES engage stakeholders? To address these questions, we analyzed 217 papers derived from an ISI Web of Knowledge search using a set of standardized criteria. The results indicate that most UES studies have been undertaken in Europe, North America, and China, at city scale. Assessment methods involve bio-physical models, Geographical Information Systems, and valuation, but few study findings have been implemented as land use policy.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Exploring pathways linking greenspace to health: Theoretical and methodological guidance (2017, background): “These measures could be adapted from studies that assessed urban ecosystem services (Haase et al., 2014; Dobbs et al., 2014).”
Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review (2017, neutral): “A major transdisciplinary research task, therefore, is to understand how urban expansion may be planned to minimise the loss of biodiversity and maintain urban ecosystem service (UES) delivery (Haase et al. 2014; Luederitz et al. 2015).”
From Multifunctionality to Multiple Ecosystem Services? A Conceptual Framework for Multifunctionality in Green Infrastructure Planning for Urban Areas (2014, background): “(Seppelt et al. 2011; Haase et al. 2014) the focus lies on publications that discuss the theoretical foundation of ES (e.”
The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework (2018, background): “multiple benefits humans receive from the ecosystems visible [177] and thus, making an explicit focus to further challenges related to UPA unnecessary.”
Using the Concepts of Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services to Specify Leitbilder for Compact and Green Cities—The Example of the Landscape Plan of Dresden (Germany) (2017, background): “Clearly, we need future-oriented research which can support strategic urban planning by revealing the dynamics of ecosystem services [63].”