Published papers

URBES will continuously present factsheets, published papers and news items throughout the project, which will all be presented under Information and communication. Here we present the published papers.

The paper by Neele Larondelle and Dagmar Haase, Urban ecosystem services assessment along a rural–urban gradient: A cross-analysis of European cities, is highlighted in the European Commission's Science for Environment Policy brief as "A straightforward approach to assessing urban ecosystem services".

Green spaces of European cities revisited for 1990-2006 by Nadja Kabisch and Dagmar Haase, in Landscape and Urban Planning, vol. 110, out February 2013: "A decrease in population does not automatically lead to a decline in residential areas and a subsequent increase in urban green space on a large scale. On a small-scale, however, demolition, de-sealing of soils and brownfield re-use all represent novel opportunities for the enlargement of urban green spaces in shrinking cities."

Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning by Erik Gómez-Baggethun and David N. Barton, in Ecological Economics, available online 30 October 2012: "The paper discusses various ways through which urban ecosystems services can enhance resilience and quality of life in cities and identifies a range of economic costs and socio‐cultural impacts that can derive from their loss. We conclude by identifying knowledge gaps and challenges for the research agenda on ecosystem services provided in urban areas."

Reaching for a sustainable, resilient urban future using the lens of ecosystem services by Åsa Jansson (now Gren), in Ecological Economics, available online 24 July 2012: "One needs to keep in mind that most of the ecosystem services consumed in cities are generated by ecosystems located outside of the cities themselves, not seldom half a world away. In order to operationalize our knowledge, hypothesis and theories on the connections between the work of nature and the welfare and survival of humans over time, we suggest the use of the ecosystem service framework in combination with the merging of the concept “ecology in cities”, mainly focusing on designing energy efficient building, sustainable logistics and providing inhabitants with healthy and functioning green urban environments, and the “ecology of cities”."