Global variation in climate, human development, and population density has implications for urban ecosystem services

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2019, Pages

  Richards, Daniel ^a,b   Masoudi, Mahyar ^b,c   Oh, Rachel R Y ^d   Yando, Erik S ^b,c   Zhang, Jingyuan ^b,c,e   Friess, Daniel A ^c   Grêt Regamey, Adrienne ^f   Tan, Puay Yok ^c   Edwards, Peter J ^a  

^a FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^b CAMPUS FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENTERPRISE CREATE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Green infrastructure; Natural capital; Sustainable development; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL CAPITAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85075901168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su11226200     Document Type: Article

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