Exploring local consequences of two land-use alternatives for the supply of urban ecosystem services in Stockholm year 2050

Urban Ecosystem Services Quantification through Remote Sensing Approach: A Systematic Review

“…Usually, secondary data are also costless and appear to be widely employed in UES studies, especially those related to LULC mapping, which were highly mentioned. With regards to LULC secondary data, the information extracted from these were related with zoning plans [65], urban atlas [16], soil maps [66], high ecological resolution classification for urban landscape and environmental systems (HERCULES) [33], census data [67], and information regarding naturalness and natural protected areas [68].…”

“…In this context, the preservation and restoration of natural environments within urban areas is socio-environmentally necessary and, commonly, economically viable [13]. Thus, mapping urban ecosystem services (UES) is described in the literature as an opportunity to monitor natural and anthropized areas that provide ES (its identification and classification), verify how this provision changes according to time and space [5,6,9,14,15], and assess how human-driven changes impacted the urban areas, positively or negatively [7,16,17].…”

Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research

“…Kain et al (2016) show how a more fine-grained representation of urban land use through service-providing elements that include both biotic and abiotic elements substantially improves the quality of ES estimates. More detailed information also enables the development of tools for planning and monitoring.…”

“…For the supply of cultural urban ES such as recreation and enhanced social cohesion, Camps-Calvet et al (2016) found that multiple benefits can be supplied by small urban green areas such as urban gardens, illustrating a relatively close match between the scales of supply and demand for cultural urban ES. Kain et al (2016) illustrate how different policy, planning, and management arrangements in Stockholm would enable the supply of urban ES to meet demand better even if overall land use remains the same. Measures systematically targeted at optimizing supply through architectural and landscape design and management can significantly increase the supply of many local-scale urban ES, including recreation, air cooling, and storm water retention.…”

Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities

“…On the other hand, it offers a structured way to explore different stakeholder perspectives and related objectives, balancing diverse and sometimes competing interests in a rational and transparent way (Adem Esmail and Geneletti 2018). In the analysed case, all scenarios had a positive effect on the provision of both ES, but potential trade-offs could be related to competing uses of the brownfields (Kain et al 2016) or to the costs of intervention (Koschke et al 2012). Starting from the described multicriteria analysis, a more complete decision support system could be built by integrating other relevant criteria about costs and benefits of planning scenarios.…”