Urban Ecosystem
Urban Ecosystem Services (UES) Assessment within a 3d-Virtual Environment: A Methodological Approach for the Larger Urban Zones (LUZ) of Naples (Italy)
... the urban structure but also the assessment of available resources in terms of services, and the continuous cooperation among specialists, decision-makers and stakeholders to reach common goals, supported by the ...
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The impact of land use/land cover scale on modelling urban ecosystem services
... modelling urban ecosystem ...an urban environment using input datasets at relatively high (5 m) and low (25 m) ...three urban areas: the towns of Milton Keynes, Bedford, and Luton, UK, which ...
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Understanding spatial patterns in the production of multiple urban ecosystem services
... assess ecosystem service provision and demand for urban and landscape scale planning ...of urban ecosystem service provision at differ- ent scales is necessary for effective spatial planning ...
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Site specific factors in the production of local urban ecosystem services : a case study of community managed green space
... on urban ecosystem services, stated that, although all people regardless of whether they live in urban or rural areas are dependent on global ecosystems, “The quality of life for urban ...
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Using the urban landscape mosaic to develop and validate methods for assessing the spatial distribution of urban ecosystem service potential
... level, ecosystem service research has used simple GIS overlay to normalise and sum overlapping ...separate ecosystem services to produce aggregated ...together ecosystem services by land ...
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Urban ecosystem services: tree diversity and stability of tropospheric ozone removal
... Notwithstanding the long-lasting human impact, span- ning over .2700 years, and the recent increase of the urbanized surface, Rome is still considered as one of the ‘‘most green’’ Italian cities, with public green space ...
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The role of socio economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services
... Urban green space: all the natural, semi-natural and artificial networks of multifunctional ecological systems within, around and between urban areas, at all spatial scales (Tzoulas et al. 2007). This ...
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Sustainable drainage system site assessment method using urban ecosystem services
... The ecosystem services are defined as the benefits gener- ated by nature that are beneficial to human well-being; phys- ically, mentally and socially (Daily et ...Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005; Boyd ...
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The role of community led innovation in the adaptive capacity of ecosystem services in an urban social ecological system
... and ecosystem service provision using correlational ...between ecosystem services and site characteristics is presented in Sections ...of ecosystem services associated with OSEIs in Section ...and ...
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A Combined Field and Remote-Sensing Based Methodology to Assess the Ecosystem Service Potential of Urban Rivers in Developing Countries
... linked to the ecosystem status categories hydromorphology: water quality: land cover in relation to 388. 3: 1: 1[r] ...
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Linking ecosystem services, urban form and green space configuration using multivariate landscape metric analysis
... 2011). Ecosystem services can be considered as outcomes of environmental processes which are then utilised by humans (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ...the ecosystem services which flow from it, can ...
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Exploring the cultural ecosystem services associated with unmanaged urban brownfield sites : an interdisciplinary (art and sciences) approach
... regulating ecosystem services (Fisher et ...difficult ecosystem services to measure by many researchers (for example; MA, 2005; Church et ...in urban areas may seem incongruous; their inherent nature ...
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Linking sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) together with ecosystem services and disservices: new connections in urban ecology
... In terms of biodiversity, not all vegetated SuDS techniques are comparable with their equivalent urban green infrastructure. Grassed swales and filter strips can be seen as equivalent to lawn grassed green spaces ...
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When Allotment Gardens Become Urban Green Spaces like Others, Providing Cultural Ecosystem Services
... The method to acquire information can be divided in two steps. The first one consisted in semi-supervised interviews of twelve stakeholders and decision-makers in four medium cities of the French Centre-Val de Loire ...
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Urban hedges : a review of plant species and cultivars for ecosystem service delivery in north-west Europe
... To decide which of the references recovered by using these keyword searches should be included in the review, we performed the analysis of titles, keywords and abstracts. For each paper meeting the criteria (i.e. having ...
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The Effects of Urban Habitats on the Fitness and Abundance of an Herbivorous Pest of Street Trees, and their Subsequent Effects on Tree Condition and Ecosystem Services
... Urban forests are more susceptible than natural forests to chronic infestations and outbreaks of herbivorous arthropods (Raupp et al. 2010, 2012). The drivers of this are not fully understood but higher ...
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An improved method for assessing mismatches between supply and demand in urban regulating ecosystem services: A case study in Tabriz, Iran
... Regulating ecosystem services provided by urban forests are of great importance for the quality of life among city ...the urban regulating ecosystem services (URES) must match with the demands ...
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A fine-scale assessment of the ecosystem service-disservice dichotomy in the context of urban ecosystems affected by alien plant invasions
... many urban areas around the world (Dickie et ...of urban land- scapes is important for promoting the development of resilient and sustainable cities (Carpenter et ...in urban areas are fundamentally ...
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The ecosystem commons
... the ecosystem commons by recognising the Whanganui River as “an indivisible and living whole comprising the Whanganui River from the mountains to the ...for ecosystem based management ...Millennium ...
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Managing Marine Ecosystem Services: A review of the Ecosystem Approach
... Coastal and shelf sea ecosystems provide humans with food (fisheries and aquaculture) energy, assimilate some of our waste and are a source of recreation and leisure. We have been using these ‘ecosystem goods and ...
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