279R_How ecosystem services drive urban growth: Integrating nature-based solutions (research summary)

What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in urban ecosystem services?

Summary of the article titled How ecosystem services drive urban growth: Integrating nature-based solutions from 2021 by Haozhi Pan, Jessica Page, Cong Cong, Stephan Barthel, and Zahra Kalantari, published in the Anthropocene journal.

This is a great preparation to our next interview with Hudson Worsley in episode 280 talking about ecosystem services for urban futures.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how ecosystem services are influencing urban growth. This article highlights the connection between human decisions, ecosystem services, and land cover changes in urban areas.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

1. Place-specific strategies are crucial for managing urban expansion while maintaining ecosystem services.
2. Ecosystem services are a major driver of urban growth, especially in areas with high accessibility to nature.
3. Urban planners must use nature-based solutions to balance development and ecosystem preservation.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: Addressing urban challenges with nature-based approaches can improve and protect ecosystem services. Yet, urban planning has not efficiently integrated such approaches to manage land use. This paper examines interactions between human and natural systems that result in ecosystem services and changes in land use and land cover in urban areas. It develops a social-ecological model for land use and land cover change, and for ecosystems services that integrates nature-based solutions in urban planning. The model treats spatial variations in ecosystems services as both drivers and consequences of human decision-making in choosing commercial and residential locations that drive land use and land cover change. We tested the social-ecological model in Stockholm County, Sweden, on a 30 × 30 m grid. Results show that accessibility in ecosystem services drives urban residential and commercial development, characterized by non-linearity. Areas around existing urban centers show high accessibility in ecosystem services and high development probabilities, whereas smaller population centers in large areas enjoy high accessibility to ecosystem services and low urban development probabilities. Model results suggest place-specific nature-based strategies for addressing the heterogeneous spatial relationships between ecosystem services and urban development.

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