- Title
- Urban ecosystem disservices in the Global South
- Creator
- Davoren, Elandre
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2021
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433780
- Identifier
- vital:73000
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-3-030-67650-6
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67650-6_11
- Description
- As much as people benefit from the ecosystem services provided by nature, ecosystem disservices also impact daily lives. This is especially true for many urban communities in the Global South due to (1) the often greater diversity of ecosystem disservices and (2) higher vulnerabilities, which together can lead to greater impacts of ecosystem disservices in many Global South settings. This chapter provides an overview of the current understandings of urban ecosystem disservices and their assessment and management with an emphasis on the Global South, albeit with reference to the Global North where useful. This overview reveals a lack of detailed and systematic empirical research on urban ecosystem disservices generally, but even more so in the Global South, despite the greater diversity and vulnerability in Global South settings. This needs to be acknowledged in urban ecology framings of urban dynamics in the Global South and translated into better integration of both ecosystem services and disservices within common research, policy or management frameworks. It is only through such integration that appropriate context-relevant policy directions and management options can be identified, thereby promoting the wellbeing of urban citizens in the Global South.
- Format
- 27 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Davoren, E. and Shackleton, C.M., 2021. Urban ecosystem disservices in the Global South. Urban ecology in the Global South, pp.265-292
- Rights
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