Ecosystem service bundles along the urban-rural gradient : insights for landscape planning and management
Baró Porras, Francesc (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Gómez-Baggethun, Erik (Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Department of International Environment and Development Studies)
Haase, Dagmar (Humboldt University of Berlin. Department of Geography)

Date:	2017
Abstract:	A key challenge of landscape planning and management is coping with multiple ecosystem service (ES) potentials and needs in complex social-ecological systems such as urban regions. However, few studies have analyzed both the supply and demand sides of ES bundles, i. e. , sets of associated ES that repeatedly appear together across time or space. This paper advances a framework to identify, map and assess ES bundles from a supply-demand approach to inform landscape planning and management. The framework is applied to the Barcelona metropolitan region, Spain, covering five ES and using eleven spatial indicators. Each indicator was quantified and mapped at the municipal level (n=164) combining different proxy- and process-based models. Our results show significant associations among ES, both at the supply and demand sides. Further, we identified five distinct ES supply-demand bundle types and characterized them based on their specific ES relationships and their main underlying social-ecological conditions. From our findings, we contend that land sharing strategies should be prioritized in urban and agricultural areas to increase landscape multifunctionality while assuring the conservation of large periurban forest areas that are critical for delivering a wide range of local ES highly demanded by the urban population.
Grants:	European Commission 603567 European Commission 308428
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
Note:	Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA) Grups de recerca: Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) Laboratori d'Anàlisi de Sistemes Socioecològics en la Globalització (LASEG)
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Barcelona metropolitan region ; Ecosystem service mismatch ; Green infrastructure ; Spatial analysis ; Urban-rural gradient
Published in:	Ecosystem services, Vol. 24 (April 2017) , p. 147-159, ISSN 2212-0416

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.02.021

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