Abstract
Wilkinson, C., T. Saarne, G. D. Peterson, and J. Colding 2013. Strategic spatial planning and the ecosystem services concept – an historical exploration. Ecology and Society 18(1): 37. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05368-180137
Highlights
Urban populations rely on ecosystems within cities for services such as recreation, microclimate regulation, erosion control, and air filtration (Bolund and Hunhammar 1999, Martinez-Arroyo and Jáuregui 2000, Niemelä et al 2010)
Our analysis shows that strategic spatial plans generally demonstrate awareness that urban populations are dependent on ecosystems and this framing is an important part of the policy discourse
It could be broadened to discover if the patterns we discovered are similar to those found in other cities, and in any particular city the historical processes that lead to the variation in ecosystem services across plans could be explored in depth
Summary
Urban populations rely on ecosystems within cities for services such as recreation, microclimate regulation, erosion control, and air filtration (Bolund and Hunhammar 1999, Martinez-Arroyo and Jáuregui 2000, Niemelä et al 2010). City inhabitants depend on the ecological footprint provided by ecosystems outside of cities for the supply of food, fiber, and other services (Folke et al 1997). The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is an attempt to articulate this relationship by identifying the services that biodiversity provides for human benefits. The ES approach identifies a more extensive set of benefits that humans derive from ecosystems in an attempt to make visible more concealed types of ES. To this end, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) identifies four categories of ES, depending on the type of benefit they provide humans with:
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