Mapping ecosystem service capacity, flow and demand for landscape and urban planning: A case study in the Barcelona metropolitan region

Land Use Policy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 405-417

  Baró, Francesc ^a   Palomo, Ignacio ^b,c   Zulian, Grazia ^d   Vizcaino, Pilar ^d   Haase, Dagmar ^e,f   Gómez Baggethun, Erik ^g,h  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^h NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air purification; Ecosystem service mismatch; Outdoor recreation; Spatial modeling; Urban rural gradient

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MAPPING; METROPOLITAN AREA; PURIFICATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

BARCELONA [BARCELONA (PRV)]; BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84974853732     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.06.006     Document Type: Article

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