Implications of Urban Sustainability, Socio-ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services

Jose Vargas-Hernandez, Karina Pallagst () and Justyna Zdunek-Wielgołaska ()
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Karina Pallagst: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Justyna Zdunek-Wielgołaska: Warsaw University of Technology

A chapter in Regional Helix Ecosystems and Sustainable Growth, 2020, pp 85-106 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper has the aim to analyze the implications that urban sustainability, socio-ecosystems, and ecosystem services have as the bases to design the urban green growth strategies. The method used is the analytic based on the theoretical and conceptual literature reviews on the topics described. A qualitative analysis offers better knowledge outcomes than a quantitative analysis using models that are based on a limited subset of implications between sustainability, socio-ecosystems, and ecosystem services with strong limitations because uncertainties and ambiguities are difficult to quantify if not impossible. Urban sustainability and environmental performance integrates biodiversity and socio-ecosystems for the provision of better quality ecosystem services supported by green infrastructure design into the green projects aimed to achieve economic and environmental benefits. It is concluded that the ecosystem services and human well-being may suffer irreversible severe declines if sustainability is not built based on biodiversity of socio-ecosystems, green infrastructure, and natural capital.

Keywords: Urban sustainability; Socio-ecosystems; Ecosystem services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47697-7_6

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