Review of urban ecosystem services from 2010 to 2020:An analysis based on CiteSpace

This paper systematically combs 416 literature on urban ecosystem services (UES) in China and other countries from 2010 to 2020,and carefully interprets the abstracts of 383 effective literature.According to the classification method of the research perspectives of ecosystem services proposed by Luederitz C,the literature is divided into six categories:ecology,governance,methods / tools / guidelines,social networking,economy and planning,and Excel and CiteSpace software were used for data statistical analysis and visual processing.The research shows that:in terms of research perspectives,foreign researches are evenly distributed in six categories:ecology,governance,methods / tools / guidelines,social networking,economy and planning,while domestic research perspectives are relatively concentrated in three categories:economy,governance,methods / tools / guidelines,and the proportion of economic category is particularly significant.In terms of research contents,there are more studies on climate governance,decision-making mechanism and method innovation abroad,while there are more studies on the measurement of carbon sequestration and oxygen releasing,the evaluation of ecological security pattern and the quantitative evaluation of UES’s economic value in China,and there are less studies on institutional organization structure and policy tools,innovative methods of UES’s value evaluation,the potential role of UES on some social phenomena,the relationship between UES and residents’ behavior and perception.

Spatially explicit urban green indicators for characterizing vegetation cover and public green space proximity: a case study on Brussels, Belgium

Cities often have a substantial green infrastructure,which provides local ecosystem services that improve the quality of life of urban residents.These services should be explicitly addressed in urban development policies,and areas with insufficient vegetation and limited access to public green spaces should be identified.This paper presents two spatially explicit urban green indicators that are derived using remote sensing imagery,freely available map data and spatial analysis tools from open source geospatial libraries and commercial software.The first indicator represents proportional green cover(public as well as private)in the vicinity of each building within a city.The second indicator quantifies the proximity of public green spaces as walking distances from buildings to actual park entrances.A dasymetric mapping approach was used to take spatial variations in population density into account.This allows representing the indicators from the perspective of citizens instead of buildings,which may be more meaningful for deriving statistics at city level or at the level of neighbourhoods or administrative zones.The potential use of these indicators in a planning context is discussed on a case study carried out for the city of Brussels,Belgium.

Research strategy for constructing a green infrastructure network based on spatial prioritization

The destruction of the ecological system caused by urban expansion has led to the environmental deterioration,cities have become increasingly vulnerable.In this study,six districts and counties along the Yellow River in Zhengzhou were selected as the study area.First,green infrastructure elements were extracted by morphological spatial pattern analysis.Then,outside the urban areas,we used connectivity analysis to evaluate the importance of core areas,adopted minimum cumulative resistance model to extract potential corridors,and identified the important corridors by using the gravity model.Finally,in the urban areas,we set up an evaluation system to assess the demands for ecosystem services.The results showed that:(1)Seven landscape types of green infrastructure be identified in study area.(2)There are 17 vital cores,136 potential corridors,and 24 vital corridors outside the urban areas.(3)The blocks with high demand for ecosystem services are mostly concentrated in the old blocks with dense populations and poor infrastructure,and there are 5 blocks with comprehensive high-demand.Based on identified importance for green infrastructure land space,and high-demand level for ecosystem services areas in this study,a green infrastructure net plan was proposed based on spatial conservation prioritisation.