This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics and applications. Read more about this book here.
Publications
Two new publications from the ESP community
Achieving Impact from ecosystem assessment and valuation of urban greenspace: The case of i-Tree Eco in Great Britain in Landscape and Urban Planning: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0169204618311915
What do People know? Ecosystem Services, Public Perception and Sustainable Management of Urban Park Trees in London, UK in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1ZCie5m5d7lXgR
New paper from ESP Greek national network (HESP)
New paper: Indicators for mapping and assessment of ecosystem condition and of the ecosystem service habitat maintenance in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020
A new research paper has been recently published in One Ecosystem Journal. It presents an ecosystem service framework implementation at landscape level to map and assess ecosystem condition and the “maintenance of nursery populations and habitats” ecosystem service (ES) (hereinafter called “habitat maintenance”), by combining a series of indicators with spatial modelling techniques. [Read more…] about New paper from ESP Greek national network (HESP)
New Publications from Thematic WG 11 – Global ES flows
A recent paper resulted from joint efforts of TWG 11 (Thematic Working Group on Global Ecoystem Service Flows) with the sDiv project sTeleBES. A new article has recently been published in the Journal of Ecological indicators entitled “Guidance for assessing interregional ecosystem service flows” [Read more…] about New Publications from Thematic WG 11 – Global ES flows
Updates from the Brazilian national network
The members of the Brazil national network have several announcement from the past month, including a new publication, the firt seminar on waterhed management, and the finalisation of the TEEB Regional-Local project on ES and biodiversity.
Members of the network published a paper showing that postponing conservation actions will impair ecosystem services and increase conflict between conservation and human activities in the Brazilian Cerrado. [Read more…] about Updates from the Brazilian national network