A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia
Urban blue-green spaces hold immense potential for supporting the sustainability and liveability of cities through the provision of urban ecosystem services (UES). However, research on UES in the Global South has not been reviewed as systematically as in the Global North. In Southeast Asia, the natu...
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| author | Lourdes, Karen T. Gibbins, Chris N. Hamel, Perrine Sanusi, Ruzana Azhar, Badrul Lechner, Alex M. |
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| description | Urban blue-green spaces hold immense potential for supporting the sustainability and liveability of cities through the provision of urban ecosystem services (UES). However, research on UES in the Global South has not been reviewed as systematically as in the Global North. In Southeast Asia, the nature and extent of the biases, imbalances and gaps in UES research are unclear. We address this issue by conducting a systematic review of UES research in Southeast Asia over the last twenty years. Our findings draw attention to the unequal distribution of UES research within the region, and highlight common services, scales and features studied, as well as methods undertaken in UES research. We found that while studies tend to assess regulating and cultural UES at a landscape scale, few studies examined interactions between services by assessing synergies and tradeoffs. Moreover, the bias in research towards megacities in the region may overlook less-developed nations, rural areas, and peri-urban regions and their unique perspectives and preferences towards UES management. We discuss the challenges and considerations for integrating and conducting research on UES in Southeast Asia based on its unique and diverse socio-cultural characteristics. We conclude our review by highlighting aspects of UES research that need more attention in order to support land use planning and decision-making in Southeast Asia. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1468202023-02-28T16:40:29Z A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia Lourdes, Karen T. Gibbins, Chris N. Hamel, Perrine Sanusi, Ruzana Azhar, Badrul Lechner, Alex M. Asian School of the Environment Science::Geology Natural Capital Blue-green Infrastructure Urban blue-green spaces hold immense potential for supporting the sustainability and liveability of cities through the provision of urban ecosystem services (UES). However, research on UES in the Global South has not been reviewed as systematically as in the Global North. In Southeast Asia, the nature and extent of the biases, imbalances and gaps in UES research are unclear. We address this issue by conducting a systematic review of UES research in Southeast Asia over the last twenty years. Our findings draw attention to the unequal distribution of UES research within the region, and highlight common services, scales and features studied, as well as methods undertaken in UES research. We found that while studies tend to assess regulating and cultural UES at a landscape scale, few studies examined interactions between services by assessing synergies and tradeoffs. Moreover, the bias in research towards megacities in the region may overlook less-developed nations, rural areas, and peri-urban regions and their unique perspectives and preferences towards UES management. We discuss the challenges and considerations for integrating and conducting research on UES in Southeast Asia based on its unique and diverse socio-cultural characteristics. We conclude our review by highlighting aspects of UES research that need more attention in order to support land use planning and decision-making in Southeast Asia. National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This work is part of a PhD research that is funded by the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Landscape Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. We are also thankful for the funding received from the International Research Collaboration Award from the Research Knowledge and Exchange Hub, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRFF12-2020-0009) and the Putra Grant-Putra Young Initiative (IPM) from Universiti Putra Malaysia (Grant No:GP-IPM/2018/9637800). 2021-03-11T07:47:31Z 2021-03-11T07:47:31Z 2021 Journal Article Lourdes, K. T., Gibbins, C. N., Hamel, P., Sanusi, R., Azhar, B. & Lechner, A. M. (2021). A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia. Land, 10(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10010040 2073-445X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146820 10.3390/land10010040 2-s2.0-85099853727 1 10 en NRFF12-2020-0009 Land © 2021 The Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Science::Geology Natural Capital Blue-green Infrastructure Lourdes, Karen T. Gibbins, Chris N. Hamel, Perrine Sanusi, Ruzana Azhar, Badrul Lechner, Alex M. A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia |
| title | A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia |
| title_full | A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia |
| title_fullStr | A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia |
| title_short | A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia |
| title_sort | review of urban ecosystem services research in southeast asia |
| topic | Science::Geology Natural Capital Blue-green Infrastructure |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146820 |
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