Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem ServicesShow others and affiliations
2014 (English)In: Ambio, ISSN 0044-7447, E-ISSN 1654-7209, Vol. 43, no 4, p. 445-453Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Within-city green infrastructure can offer opportunities and new contexts for people to become stewards of ecosystem services. We analyze cities as social-ecological systems, synthesize the literature, and provide examples from more than 15 years of research in the Stockholm urban region, Sweden. The social-ecological approach spans from investigating ecosystem properties to the social frameworks and personal values that drive and shape human interactions with nature. Key findings demonstrate that urban ecosystem services are generated by social-ecological systems and that local stewards are critically important. However, land-use planning and management seldom account for their role in the generation of urban ecosystem services. While the small scale patchwork of land uses in cities stimulates intense interactions across borders much focus is still on individual patches. The results highlight the importance and complexity of stewardship of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services and of the planning and governance of urban green infrastructure.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2014. Vol. 43, no 4, p. 445-453
Keywords [en]
Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Property rights, Stewardship, Urban ecology, Urban social-ecological systems
National Category
Ecology Environmental Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-198022DOI: 10.1007/s13280-014-0506-yISI: 000334442400004PubMedID: 24740616Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84902103438OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-198022DiVA, id: diva2:1055026
Note
QC 20161212. AuthorCount:7;
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