Reviewing the role of ecosystems services in the sustainability of the urban environment: A multi-country analysis

Filho, Walter Leal; Barbir, Jelena; Sima, Mihaela; Kalbus, Alexandra; Nagy, Gustavo J.; Paletta, Angelo; Villamizar, Alicia; Martinez, Reinaldo; Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda; Pereira, Mário Jorge; Mussetta, Paula; Ivars, Jorge Daniel; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade; Neiva, Samara da Silva; Moncada, Stefano; Galdies, Charles; Kļaviņš, Māris; Nikolova, Mariyana; Gogu, Radu Constantin; Balogun, Abdul‐Lateef; Bouredji, Aicha; Bonoli, Alessandra

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121338

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“…The pace and scale of urban expansion have caused environmental and health problems for urban dwellers, which are worsened by the lack of contact with nature (Manzoor et al 2019). Urban parks, "the areas of land containing grass, shrubs, and trees, and are accessible to and managed for, the benefit of the public" (Collins et al 2019), are rare hot spots of nature in complex urban centers (Filho et al 2020) and contribute to environmental sustainability by providing a range of essential ecosystem services (ESs; Mexia et al 2018).…”

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Valuing the invaluable: park visitors' perceived importance and willingness to pay for urban park trees in Pakistan

2021

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In complex urban systems, urban parks are rare hot spots of nature, responsible for delivering a range of ecosystem services. Trees are critically important components of urban parks that provide many benefits, and, at the same time, face challenges such as lack of funds, mismanagement, climate change, pests, and diseases. There is a growing need to increase the urban tree cover to sustain urban ecosystems. Successful policymaking requires engagement with all stakeholders, especially park users. An understanding of how people's perceptions of the benefits and challenges faced by urban park trees is pivotal to making decisions that have long-standing support. We surveyed 521 park visitors in Multan, Pakistan, to assess their valuation of urban park trees, their understanding of the challenges faced by trees, and their willingness to pay (WTP) for increasing tree cover in urban parks. We found that people widely appreciated the ecosystem services provided by park trees. Provision of oxygen, shade, and clean air was considered the greatest benefits while cutting down, lack of space, and urbanization were perceived as the biggest challenges to trees. Respondents showed a WTP and believed in government-public cooperation for increasing tree cover. Income, age, and education were significant predictors of WTP. The study reflects findings in other development and geography contexts and highlights the need for broader dissemination of information on critical threats to park trees and underlines the potential for engaging locally to maximize effectively in the management of park trees.

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Valuing the invaluable: park visitors' perceived importance and willingness to pay for urban park trees in Pakistan

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“…An example is the use of equation (10) to calculate the content of sulfates in a watercourse. Based on the processing of average multi-year data, the linear dependence for sulfates over an area between posts 3 and 4 [16] Equation (10) makes it possible, in the first approximation, to calculate an increase in the concentration of one pollutant on condition that the gain of the concentration of another pollutant is known.…”

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“…For example, for the considered area, the linear dependence for phosphates takes the form: 3) The dependence of the sums of increases in the concentrations of several Ps Thus, the above dependences (10) and (11) make it possible, in any arbitrary river station, to calculate in the first approximation an increase in the concentrations of Ps. This significantly reduces the material and temporal costs for determining the Ps content compared to traditional determination procedures.…”

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“…Paper [9] considered the two-dimensional (in the horizontal plane) models of the transfer of impurities but without taking into consideration the turbulent movement in a watercourse. Work [10] applied a two-dimensional (in the vertical plane) model of a pollutant's propagation; study [11] provides examples of its improvement and the interpretation for actual water object conditions taking into consideration the turbulence of the current. Yet, the cited papers consider only the conditions of the local space.…”

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Determining the effect of anthropogenic loading on the environmental state of a surface source of water supply

Ponomarenko

Plyatsuk

Hurets

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At present, even for a fairly large surface water object, the effectiveness of the forecasting models of water qualitative composition is largely determined by the completeness and adequacy of the source information. A review of approaches to using such models is given in scientific papers [1, 2]. Traditional forecasting methods, developed for using mod-16. Smirnyagina, N. N., Khaltanova, V. M., Kim, T. B., Milonov, A. S. (2012). Thermodynamic modeling of the formation of borides and carbides of tungsten, synthesis, structure and phase composition of the coatings based on them, formed by electron-beam treatment in vacuum. Izvestiya vysshih uchebnyh zavedeniy. Fizika, 55 (12 (3)), 159-163.

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“…Reconstructing cities into environmentally friendly, resilient, and sustainable areas [137][138][139][140] necessitates action comprising nearly all segments of society. Nature-based ways out may configure undertakings for societal challenges necessitating urban sustainability transformation, while attempting to optimize environmental, social, and economic upsides.…”

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Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Pera

2020

Sustainability

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In this systematic review, I cumulate previous research findings indicating that sustainable urbanism and networked public governance can be instrumental in carrying out extensive sustainability and resilience objectives through steering urban transformations in the direction of sustainability and resilience. Urban analytics data infrastructure, multicriteria sustainability evaluation, and sustainable performance assessment display the intricate network dynamics operational within cities, impacting urban resilience decision-making processes and leading to equitable and sustainable urban development. Throughout July 2020, I conducted a quantitative literature review of the Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases, search terms including “sustainable urban planning,” “urban sustainability assessment,” “sustainable urban governance/urban sustainability governance,” “sustainable urban development,” “sustainable/sustainability behavior,” and “environmental performance.” As I focused on research published exclusively in the past two years, only 301 various types of articles met the eligibility criteria. By removing those whose results were inconclusive, unconfirmed by replication, or too general, and because of space constraints, I selected 153, mainly empirical, sources. Future research should investigate whether the assessment of environmental sustainability performance of heterogeneous urban configurations by shared sustainability policymaking through spatial green infrastructure planning and regulations articulate sustainable urban design and governance for the development of innovative performance.

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Reviewing the role of ecosystems services in the sustainability of the urban environment: A multi-country analysis

Cited by 47 publications

References 63 publications

Valuing the invaluable: park visitors' perceived importance and willingness to pay for urban park trees in Pakistan

Valuing the invaluable: park visitors' perceived importance and willingness to pay for urban park trees in Pakistan

Determining the effect of anthropogenic loading on the environmental state of a surface source of water supply

Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

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