TY - JOUR

T1 - Ecosystem Services and Urban Planning: A Review of the Contribution of the Concept to Adaptation in Urban Areas

AU - Ledo Marques, Andresa

AU - Benatti Alvim, Angélica A. Tanus

AU - Schröder, Jörg

N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgments: The authors are grateful to CAPES PROEX; CAPES PRINT (Mackenzie Presbyterian University International Project), DAAD and CNPq for making this work possible. Funding Information: Funding: This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil (CAPES)-Finance Code 001 and Programa de Excelência Acadêmica (Process 23038.006765/2021-64) - and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).

PY - 2022/2/19

Y1 - 2022/2/19

N2 - The effects of climate change have a negative impact on urban areas and projections indicate these impacts will worsen in the coming years. In this context, cities need to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Potential solutions proposed in the literature for this adaptation include the use of Ecosystem Services. However, of the large volume of publications, few articles provide a structured analysis of the contribution and use of the concept in urban planning and adaptation to climate change. The objective of the present study was to review the literature on the subject and provide a structured analysis of the state of the art, main authors, countries, and references addressing the topic, together with key concepts emerging from this research, and challenges for future studies. Thus, a hybrid method of bibliometric analysis and in-depth reading of key articles held on the Web of Science electronic database was applied. The results revealed a growing scientific interest in the subject, a trend of greater interdisciplinarity in research, use of different evaluation methods, both economic and non-economic, and a systemic perspective that approaches sustainability not only as an environmental problem, but as a complex phenomenon.

AB - The effects of climate change have a negative impact on urban areas and projections indicate these impacts will worsen in the coming years. In this context, cities need to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Potential solutions proposed in the literature for this adaptation include the use of Ecosystem Services. However, of the large volume of publications, few articles provide a structured analysis of the contribution and use of the concept in urban planning and adaptation to climate change. The objective of the present study was to review the literature on the subject and provide a structured analysis of the state of the art, main authors, countries, and references addressing the topic, together with key concepts emerging from this research, and challenges for future studies. Thus, a hybrid method of bibliometric analysis and in-depth reading of key articles held on the Web of Science electronic database was applied. The results revealed a growing scientific interest in the subject, a trend of greater interdisciplinarity in research, use of different evaluation methods, both economic and non-economic, and a systemic perspective that approaches sustainability not only as an environmental problem, but as a complex phenomenon.

KW - Climate change adaptation

KW - Urban planning

KW - Urban ecology

KW - Ecosystem services

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U2 - 10.3390/su14042391

DO - 10.3390/su14042391

M3 - Article

VL - 14

JO - Sustainability

JF - Sustainability

SN - 2071-1050

IS - 4

M1 - 2391

ER -