| Autor: |
ATIF, S. B., SAQIB, Z., ALI, A., ZAMAN, M. H., AKHTAR, N., FATIMA, H., ATIF, M., FAROOQI, S. M. |
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Applied Ecology & Environmental Research; 2018, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p3545-3581, 37p |
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The challenges accompanying socio-ecological and demographic transformations in the urban areas necessitate for coordinated efforts to ensure urban ecological resilience. Trans-disciplinary analytical construct of urban ecosystem services (UES) empowers the policy makers and urban planners to synchronize the orientations of human impacts and resilience of ecological resources in urban areas. The current study provides a systematic overview about the research orientations, approaches and techniques used in the recent studies regarding UES. The study examined: what types of evaluation methods were adopted in the recent UES research? What is their spatial and temporal pattern? What types of UES were focused and environmental components relied upon for the assessment? To address these questions, 116 relevant publications were scrutinized by using a set of assessment criteria. The findings indicated a lesser focus in research towards UES in developing countries as compared to the volume and increasing share of their urban population. The study also establishes that an overwhelming proportion of the UES research was carried out in the industrialized countries of the northern hemisphere but rather skewed towards studying regulatory ecosystem services. The recommendations for improving the relevancy of contemporary research for stakeholders were made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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