Authors
Marthe L Derkzen, Astrid JA van Teeffelen, Harini Nagendra, Peter H Verburg
Publication date
2017/12/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
29
Pages
32-39
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Green space is important for city dwellers, but for a wide variety of reasons.
- We synthesize how urban green space roles shift with development and global change.
- We identify different roles of green space, trajectories and triggers of change.
- Roles and trajectories are linked to ecosystem services and their users.
- Shifts in urban green space cause trade-offs between urban residents.
Green space in cities is important, but not always and everywhere for the same reasons. Based on literature review and empirical evidence, we describe transformations in the roles of urban green space (UGS) across time and place using the ecosystem services concept. Urban development and societal change affect the degree of UGS functionality via different trajectories like degradation, revalorization and community action. We explain triggers of different trajectories of change and emerging trade-offs within society. An …
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