Rivers as municipal infrastructure: Demand for environmental services in informal settlements along an Indonesian river

Vollmer, Derek; Grêt‐Regamey, Adrienne

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.10.001

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“…Reductions in urban vegetation cover are likely to reduce the provision of environmental, social, and economic benefits from urban vegetation, resulting in negative impacts such as elevated urban temperatures and flood risk [71,72]. The higher rate of loss of urban vegetation cover in Africa, Asia, and South America is therefore concerning, as these regions are particularly susceptible to environmental risks [73], and many urban residents depend more directly on ecosystem services for their livelihoods [29,74].…”

Section: Implications Of Global Changes In Vegetation Covermentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Changes in Urban Vegetation Cover

Richards¹,

Belcher

2019

Remote Sensing

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Urban vegetation provides many ecosystem services that make cities more liveable for people. As the world continues to urbanise, the vegetation cover in urban areas is changing rapidly. Here we use Google Earth Engine to map vegetation cover in all urban areas larger than 15 km 2 in 2000 and 2015, which covered 390,000 km 2 and 490,000 km 2 respectively. In 2015, urban vegetation covered a substantial area, equivalent to the size of Belarus. Proportional vegetation cover was highly variable, and declined in most urban areas between 2000 and 2015. Declines in proportional vegetated cover were particularly common in the Global South. Conversely, proportional vegetation cover increased in some urban areas in eastern North America and parts of Europe. Most urban areas that increased in vegetation cover also increased in size, suggesting that the observed net increases were driven by the capture of rural ecosystems through low-density suburban sprawl. Far fewer urban areas achieved increases in vegetation cover while remaining similar in size, although this trend occurred in some regions with shrinking populations or economies. Maintaining and expanding urban vegetation cover alongside future urbanisation will be critical for the well-being of the five billion people expected to live in urban areas by 2030.

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Section: Implications Of Global Changes In Vegetation Covermentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Changes in Urban Vegetation Cover

Richards¹,

Belcher

2019

Remote Sensing

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“…Land Use [5, 16,23,27,34,39,42] Administrative boundaries [29,38]: national Administrative boundaries [29,38]: local Bogs, moorland [6,21,29,32,33,35,41,43] Agriculture [4,13,21,24,29,30,32,33,34,6,41] Coastline/lake and river shore [11,21,25,29,35,36,41,44,45,47]: European Coastline/lake and river shore [11,21,25,29,35,36,41,44,45,47]: national Coastline/lake and river shore typology and population density. For accessibility, a detailed road network of walking and cycling paths was considered linking inhabitants to recreation areas.…”

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A tiered approach for mapping ecosystem services

Grêt‐Regamey¹,

Weibel²,

Kienast

et al. 2015

Ecosystem Services

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a b s t r a c tEcosystem services (ES) mapping make the benefits of nature spatially explicit. The different methods used for ES mapping limit the comparability of outcomes and call for a more consistent but flexible approach. We present a four step tiered approach for ES mapping supporting scholars to select the adequate combination of variables: First, the user, researcher or policy maker defines the goal of the ES assessment. Second, a meta-analysis of relevant ES mapping studies is conducted to identify key variables for mapping the selected ES. Third, the identified variables are attributed to the different levels of the multitier framework according to the level at which they best answer the policy or research question. Finally, appropriate methods for mapping the ES are selected based on the reviewed studies. We illustrate the approach for recreational services at three different tiers. Main advantages of the tiered approach are that (i) it can be adapted to other ES, (ii) it supports the efforts toward a standardized ES assessment, (iii) it provides information about relevant variables to be considered in long term monitoring at different scales, (iv) it supports sustainable resource management as it ensures the inclusion of information relevant to decision makers at different levels.

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“…Stoler et al ., 2012; Chakava et al ., 2014; Srinivasan and Kulkarni, 2014). This oversight, according to Vollmer and Grêt‐Regamey (2013), stems from an assumed distance between urban residents and ecological processes when for tens of millions of people in cities, vulnerability to ecological processes is very real.…”

Section: What Is Worlding? Why World Water Supply?mentioning

confidence: 99%