Ecosystem services of collectively managed urban gardens: Exploring factors affecting synergies and trade-offs at the site level

Dennis, Matthew; James, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.05.009

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“…Under the classification schemes of the UA and LCM, however, it is not possible to identify such sites as consisting of green and blue space at all. Such spaces provide important social [69][70][71] and ecological [71][72][73] benefits and present a pertinent example of how smaller but highly productive urban green spaces have hitherto been overlooked in urban mapping classification schemes. The ability to capture such spaces and their associated landscape features is a key improvement made possible through the mapping approach developed here.…”

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Mapping Urban Green Infrastructure: A Novel Landscape-Based Approach to Incorporating Land Use and Land Cover in the Mapping of Human-Dominated Systems

Dennis

Barlow

Cavan

et al. 2018

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Common approaches to mapping green infrastructure in urbanised landscapes invariably focus on measures of land use or land cover and associated functional or physical traits. However, such onedimensional perspectives do not accurately capture the character and complexity of the landscapes in which urban inhabitants live. The new approach presented in this paper demonstrates how open-source, high spatial and temporal resolution data with global coverage can be used to measure and represent the landscape qualities of urban environments. Through going beyond simple metrics of quantity, such as percentage green and blue cover, it is now possible to explore the extent to which landscape quality helps to unpick the mixed evidence presented in the literature on the benefits of urban nature to human well-being. Here we present a landscape approach, employing remote sensing, GIS and data reduction techniques to map urban green infrastructure elements in a large U.K. city region. Comparison with existing urban datasets demonstrates considerable improvement in terms of coverage and thematic detail. The characterisation of landscapes, using census tracts as spatial units, and subsequent exploration of associations with social-ecological attributes highlights the further detail that can be uncovered by the approach. For example, eight urban landscape types identified for the case study city exhibited associations with distinct socioeconomic conditions accountable not only to quantities but also qualities of green and blue space. The identification of individual landscape features through simultaneous measures of land use and land cover demonstrated unique and significant associations between the former and indicators of human health and ecological condition. The approach may therefore provide a promising basis for developing further insight into processes and characteristics that affect human health and well-being in urban areas, both in the United Kingdom and beyond.

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Mapping Urban Green Infrastructure: A Novel Landscape-Based Approach to Incorporating Land Use and Land Cover in the Mapping of Human-Dominated Systems

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Cavan

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“…However, some studies focus solely on one benefit, mostly on biodiversity (8 papers, e.g., [63][64][65], followed by regulating services (7 papers) mainly related to run-off mitigation [66,67], maintenance of soil quality [68,69], microclimate regulation [70], and pollination [71]. The focus of the studies dealing with ecosystem services and biodiversity is clearly on community gardens (14 papers, e.g., [60,61,72], followed by private/home food gardens (6 papers, e.g., [73][74][75] and allotment gardens (5 papers, e.g., [60,68,76]). Urban and peri-urban farms [75,77] or rooftop gardens [78] are rarely investigated within this challenge.…”

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“…Only two papers discussed trade-offs or synergies among ecosystem services [72,73]. The papers suggest that there might be trade-offs between food supply and microclimate regulation as well as between food production and biodiversity.…”

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“…Ecological drivers are cited 33 times in total. In this category "nature protection", including preserving and enhancing biodiversity [72], for instance, plays a major role in the review literature (64%), while "counteracting environmental pollution" through UPA (18%) is perceived as a minor ecological driver for UPA implementation. Spatial and technical drivers in general are less often cited than the other drivers within the categories mentioned above.…”

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“…So far, the focus of current research is clearly on community gardens (n = 58), followed by residential gardens/backyards (n = 24), and rooftop gardens and rooftop greenhouses (n = 23). Less often investigated were, for instance organic farms (n = 1) [106] or orchards (n = 2) [72,163]. For mapping different forms of UPA, Google Earth and web-mapping services can be used as demonstrated on the residential garden, community garden, urban farm, institutional garden, and illegal garden [175].…”

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Ecosystem services of collectively managed urban gardens: Exploring factors affecting synergies and trade-offs at the site level

Cited by 35 publications

References 75 publications

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