title: Ecosystem services in urban landscapes: practical applications and governance implications.
abstract: Urban landscapes are the everyday environment for the majority of the global population, and almost 80 % of the Europeans live in urban areas. The continuous growth in the number and size of urban areas along with an increasing demand on resources and energy poses great challenges for ensuring human welfare in cities while preventing an increasing loss of biodiversity. The understanding of how urban ecosystems function, provide goods and services for urban dwellers; and how they change and what allows and limits their performance can add to the understanding of ecosystem change and governance in general in an ever more human-dominated world. This Special Issue aims at bridging the knowledge gap among urbanization, demand creation, and provisioning of ecosystem services in urban regions on the one hand and schemes of urban governance and planning on the other.
authors.affiliation: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, dagmar.haase@ufz.de.
authors.forename: Dagmar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Haase
authors.forename: Niki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Frantzeskaki
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Elmqvist
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D055669:Ecological and Environmental Phenomena; D017753:Ecosystem; D009111:Local Government
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):434-44
references.pmid: 24740615
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):480-91
references.pmid: 24740619
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):530-41
references.pmid: 24740623
references.citation: PLoS One. 2013 Jun 20;8(6):e66531
references.pmid: 23840501
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):466-79
references.pmid: 24740618
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):542-55
references.pmid: 24740624
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):413-33
references.pmid: 24740614
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):492-501
references.pmid: 24740620
references.citation: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008;1134:213-32
references.pmid: 18566096
references.citation: Science. 2008 Feb 8;319(5864):756-60
references.pmid: 18258902
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):516-29
references.pmid: 24740622
references.citation: PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23777
references.pmid: 21876770
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):454-65
references.pmid: 24740617
references.citation: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 May 15;109(20):7687-92
references.pmid: 22550174
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):445-53
references.pmid: 24740616
references.citation: Ambio. 2014 May;43(4):502-15
references.pmid: 24740621