REVIEW: Quantifying urban ecosystem services based on high-resolution data of urban green space: An assessment for Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1020-1032

  Derkzen, Marthe L ^a   van Teeffelen, Astrid J A ^a   Verburg, Peter H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate adaptation; Ecosystem services bundles; Green infrastructure; Mapping; Spatial planning; Trade off analysis; Urban ecology; Urban greening

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GREENSPACE; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; LAND COVER; LITERATURE REVIEW; MAPPING METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING;

NETHERLANDS; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND;

EID: 84948709569     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12469     Document Type: Review

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