Abstract:Biodiversity and ecosystem services are of great importance for maintaining the sustainability of a city. Singapore Index, also known as City Biodiversity Index (CBI) is a tool for monitoring and evaluating a city's performance and progress related to conserving and enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services. We have utilized the CBI for three Indian smart cities, i.e., Pune, Faridabad and Raipur for assessing their biodiversity level and for ranking them based on CBI scores. A standard method of CBI scorin… Show more
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