Titlebook: Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities; A Global Assessment Thomas Elmqvist,Michail Fragkias,Cathy

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Urban Ecosystem Services,nt ecosystem services and disservices in urban areas. Second, we describe a range of valuation approaches (cultural values, health benefits, economic costs, and resilience) for capturing the importance of urban ecosystem service multiple values. Finally, we analyze how ecosystem service assessment m

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Regional Assessment of North America: Urbanization Trends, Biodiversity Patterns, and Ecosystem Sern is urban, with Mexico slightly less (Kaiser Family Foundation 2013). Population growth combined with economic growth has fueled recent urban land expansion in North America. Between 1970 and 2000, urban land area expanded at a rate of 3.31 % (Seto et al. 2011) creating unique challenges for conser

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Regional Assessment of Oceania,fic Ocean were urbanized relatively recently (typically following independence in the latter half of the 1900s,) but has increased rapidly since the 1970s due to both high population growth rates and inward migration to the amenities of urban centers. In addition, changing economic realities associa

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,Local Assessment of İstanbul: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,ocated in a region that has rich biodiversity due partly to its unique location at the crossroads of two continental landmasses and two large water bodies. The geographical characteristics and the city’s topography allow for diverse micro-climatic zones to exist in a relatively small area, 5,461 km.

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Local Assessment of Stockholm: Revisiting the Stockholm Urban Assessment,Ecosystems and human well-being: synthesis. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2005). This chapter revisits SUA and fills in important knowledge gaps in the assessment as well as provides insights on urban resilience building. The chapter applies a critical perspective on the present urban development tr

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Local Assessment of New York City: Biodiversity, Green Space, and Ecosystem Services,er 20 million people in the metropolitan region, NYC nevertheless has rich biodiversity that provides a broad suite of ecosystem services, with new assessments of biodiversity underway in city government, NGOs, and universities. NYC contains the most parkland of any U.S. city and currently about 21