Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas
dc.contributor.author | Elmqvist, T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Setala, H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Handel, S.N. | |
dc.contributor.author | Van der Ploeg, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Aronson, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Blignaut, James Nelson | |
dc.contributor.author | Gomez-Baggethun, E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nowak, D.J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kronenberg, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | De Groot, R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-12T07:11:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-12T07:11:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-05-22 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Economics | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | am2015 | en_ZA |
dc.description.sponsorship | This study has been possible through support to T. Elmqvist from Formas and Biodiversa through the URBES project and to T. Elmqvist and J. Kronenberg by GREEN SURGE, EU FP7 collaborative project, FP7-ENV.2013.6.2-5-603567. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Elmqvist, T, Setala, H, Handel, SN, Van der Ploeg, S, Aronson, J, Blignaut, JN, Gomez-Baggethun, E, Nowak, DJ, Kronenberg, J & De Groot, R 2015, 'Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas', Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 14, pp. 101-108. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 1877-3435 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1877-3443 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2015.05.001 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51975 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Ecosystem services | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Monetary benefits | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Nature | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Urban areas | en_ZA |
dc.title | Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |