Urban Ecosystem services on the local level: Urban green spaces as providers

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 290-304

  Breuste, Jürgen ^a   Schnellinger, Johanna ^a   Qureshi, Salman ^b,c   Faggi, Anna ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Habitat provision; Nature experience; Recreation; Urban indicators; Urban parks

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCRETE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GREENSPACE; HABITAT; KNOWLEDGE; LAND USE CHANGE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION;

EID: 84893551885     PISSN: 1335342X     EISSN: 1337947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/eko-2013-0026     Document Type: Article

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