Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas

dc.contributor.authorElmqvist, T.
dc.contributor.authorSetala, H.
dc.contributor.authorHandel, S.N.
dc.contributor.authorVan der Ploeg, S.
dc.contributor.authorAronson, J.
dc.contributor.authorBlignaut, James Nelson
dc.contributor.authorGomez-Baggethun, E.
dc.contributor.authorNowak, D.J.
dc.contributor.authorKronenberg, J.
dc.contributor.authorDe Groot, R.
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-12T07:11:32Z
dc.date.available2016-04-12T07:11:32Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-22
dc.description.abstractCities 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.departmentEconomicsen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2015en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThis 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.citationElmqvist, 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.issn1877-3435 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1877-3443 (online)
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2015.05.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/51975
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherElsevieren_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.subjectEcosystem servicesen_ZA
dc.subjectMonetary benefitsen_ZA
dc.subjectNatureen_ZA
dc.subjectUrban areasen_ZA
dc.titleBenefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areasen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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