- Title
- Ecosystem provisioning services in Global South cities
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2021
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433764
- Identifier
- vital:72999
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-3-030-67650-6
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67650-6_8
- Description
- All of humankind, urban and rural, rich and poor and whether living in the Global South or the Global North rely to some degree on provisioning ecosystem services such as food, water, timber, fibre and medicinal products. However, in contrast to the Global North the contextual forces shaping many urban livelihoods in the Global South necessitate that many people access the needed provisioning services themselves by directly harvesting or collecting from the immediate, local urban and peri-urban environments, or purchasing them from those who do. Thus, the need for and local availability of provisioning services has profound implications for not only the quality of urban livelihoods, but also the urban ecology in relation to extent and use of urban green infrastructure from where the provisioning services are sourced and the species within them. This chapter summarises compelling evidence from throughout the Global South regarding the extent of use of locally sourced provisioning services by urban communities. It shows that Global South contexts prompt the use of a diverse array of resource types and hundreds of different species in specific settings, much greater than found in Global North cities.
- Format
- 23 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shackleton, C.M., 2021. Ecosystem provisioning services in Global South cities. Urban ecology in the global south, pp.203-226
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
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