Mapping the benefits of nature in cities with the InVEST software

Hamel, Perrine; Guerry, Anne D.; Polasky, Stephen; Han, Baolong; Douglass, James A.; Hamann, Maike; Janke, Ben; Kuiper, Jan J.; Levrel, Harold; Liu, H.; Lonsdorf, Eric V.; McDonald, Robert I.; Nootenboom, Chris; Ouyang, Zhiyun; Remme, Roy P.; Sharp, Richard; Tardieu, Léa; Viguié, Vincent; Xu, Dandan; Zheng, Hua; Daily, Gretchen C.

doi:10.1038/s42949-021-00027-9

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“…A few examples are ARIES, Co$ting Nature, LUCI, InVEST, Water Word, and i-Tree [15]. However, some models have focused on mapping and land use outside urban areas, such as ARIES, Co$ting Nature, and LUCI.…”

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Evaluation of Regulating and Provisioning Services Provided by a Park Designed to Be Resilient to Climate Change in Bangkok, Thailand

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Understanding the ecosystem services provided by urban green spaces, in terms of their environmental, economic, and social benefits, is essential for a better management of area. Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park (CU 100) was established to mitigate the effects of climate change, especially flood prevention. This study focused on quantifying the ecosystem services provided by the trees in the park in terms of regulating and provisioning services. A publicly available tool, the i-Tree Eco international software, was used with data obtained from a local weather station as proxies to determine the accuracy of the analysis. Services, quantified in terms of monetary value, included avoided runoff, carbon storage, carbon sequestration, pollution removal, and timber price. The total monetary benefits, obtained from 697 trees (56 species, 49 genera, and 22 families), were estimated at USD 101,400. Of the total services, provisioning services contributed 75% to the total monetary value. Among all regulating services, the avoided runoff contributed about 60%, which was considered as the goal achieved by the park design. Azadirachta indica A. Juss (USD 518.75/tree−1/year−1), Shorea roxburghii G. Don (USD 417.17/tree−1/year−1) and Millettia leucantha Kurz (USD 414.87/tree−1/year−1) provided the greatest benefit, as indicated by a high value of provisioning services in terms of a high timber quality. These results can be used when planning the composition of trees to be planted in urban areas to increase both green spaces and maximize ecosystem services to improve the vitality of human well-being.

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“…While some models are available online and are free, such as InVEST and i-Tree Eco, the level of complexity varies for each model. For example, InVEST provides a suite of 18 models that can be used as tools to estimate the value of different services [15].…”

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Evaluation of Regulating and Provisioning Services Provided by a Park Designed to Be Resilient to Climate Change in Bangkok, Thailand

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“…Various software and frameworks have been developed (i.e., ARIES [26], Co$ting Nature [27], LUCI [28], InVEST [29], WaterWorld [30], and i-Tree [31]) to assess the ecosystem services provided by vegetation.…”

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Urban Planning Insights from Tree Inventories and Their Regulating Ecosystem Services Assessment

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With the uncertainties that our societies are living with (the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change), it becomes essential to provide urban planners and decision-makers with state-of-the-art and user-friendly methodologies to incorporate ecosystem service considerations into their designs for resilient cities. In this regard, urban forests play a crucial role. The quantification of the ecosystem services is geo-specific and needs studies in different urban contexts. At this scope, we evaluated the urban forest of a neighborhood of a densely built-up Italian city (Perugia) with a low level of urban greenery management and with a tree inventory still in progress. Furthermore, we defined a tool helpful in tree-planting decisions and management. This paper involves citizens in field research for trees inventory. Then, it uses i-Tree Eco to evaluate four ecosystem services (carbon storage and sequestration, pollution removal, and runoff avoided) provided by 373 inventoried urban trees belonging to 57 species. Our results show that Italian Municipal tree inventories do not adequately represent their urban forest and that citizens’ participation provides a cost-effective method for integrating field data. Finally, the paper develops an easy tool helping local administrations enhance the ecosystem services provisions in urban green design.

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“…The scenario maps would form the basis for further assessment and quantification of ecosystem services and implications for biodiversity. Easy-to-use, readily available ecosystem services models such as InVEST can be applied for such assessments (Ruckelshaus et al 2015;Hamel et al 2021), specifically to analyze implications regarding the Nature for Society perspective of the NFF. From the Nature for Nature and Nature as Culture perspectives the visions and desires of people, as surfaced during our process, challenge conventional modelling approaches, as these fail to represent the known diversity of people-nature interactions (Kok et al 2016;Rosa et al 2017).…”

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Exploring desirable nature futures for National Park Hollandse Duinen

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Achieving global sustainability goals requires most people and societies to fundamentally alter their relationship with nature. New approaches are called for to guide change processes towards sustainable futures that embrace the plurality of people’s perspectives on nature. This paper presents a novel approach to exploring desirable futures for nature and people that was developed through an application in National Park Hollandse Duinen in the Netherlands. This new national park is developed bottom-up by a diverse group of actors reshaping their interactions with each other and with nature. Our approach, co-designed with key stakeholders of the national park, engages with a new pluralistic framework for nature values presented by the IPBES task force on scenarios and models to catalyze the development of nature-centered scenarios. We integrated this Nature Futures Framework with the Three Horizons Framework in a participatory workshop process designed to bring people’s diverse relationships with nature to the fore, and jointly envision desirable futures and the pathways to get there. An analytical framework is used to analyze and compare the visions and assess their potential contribution to the SDGs. We summarize the results of the application in National Park Hollandse Duinen and reflect on lessons learned. We see much potential for this values-based futures approach to support change processes in various social-ecological contexts toward more sustainable futures for nature and people.

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Mapping the benefits of nature in cities with the InVEST software

Cited by 87 publications

References 66 publications

Evaluation of Regulating and Provisioning Services Provided by a Park Designed to Be Resilient to Climate Change in Bangkok, Thailand

Evaluation of Regulating and Provisioning Services Provided by a Park Designed to Be Resilient to Climate Change in Bangkok, Thailand

Urban Planning Insights from Tree Inventories and Their Regulating Ecosystem Services Assessment

Exploring desirable nature futures for National Park Hollandse Duinen

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