• Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas 

      Elmqvist, Thomas; Setälä, H.; Handel, S.N.; van der Ploeg, S.; Aronson, J.; Blignaut, J.N.; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Nowak, D.J.; Kronenberg, J.; de Groot, R. (Journal article, 2015)
      Cities are a key nexus of the relationship between people and nature and are huge centers of demand for ecosystem services and also generate extremely large environmental impacts. Current projections of rapid expansion of ...
    • Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value 

      Hahn, Thomas; Sioen, Giles B.; Gasparatos, Alexandros; Elmqvist, Thomas; Brondizio, Eduardo; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Folke, Carl; Setiawati, Martiwi Diah; Atmaja, Tri; Arini, Enggar Yustisi; Jarzebski, Marcin Pawel; Fukushi, Kensuke; Takeuchi, Kazuhiko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Recently two distinctly different conceptualisations of insurance value of biodiversity/ ecosystems have been developed. The ecosystem framing addresses the full resilience value without singling out subjective risk ...
    • Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research 

      Kremer, Peleg; Hamstead, Zoé; Haase, Dagmar; McPhearson, Timon; Frantzeskaki, Niki; Andersson, Erik; Kabisch, Nadja; Larondelle, Neele; Rall, Emily L.; Voigt, Annette; Baró, Francesc; Bertram, Christine; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Hansen, Rieke; Kaczorowska, Anna; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Kronenberg, Jakub; Langemeyer, Johannes; Pauleit, Stephan; Rehdanz, Katrin; Schwenius, Maria; Ham, Chantal van; Wurster, Daniel; Elmqvist, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Understanding the dynamics of urban ecosystem services is a necessary requirement for adequate planning, management, and governance of urban green infrastructure. Through the three-year Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...