The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has mainstreamed as an interdisciplinary
framework in the urban sustainability and resilience agenda. While the uptake of ES in …

Highlights•Systems approach can guide smart cities to reconnect with urban sustainability.•A
smart initiative is smarter if it connects across all SET subsystems.•Social processes benefit …

The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need
to question the desired degree of food self-sufficiency through urban agriculture. While these …

Nature underpins human well-being in critical ways, especially in health. Nature provides
pollination of nutritious crops, purification of drinking water, protection from floods, and …

Ecosystem services generated in a specific area have utility outside the area. Ecosystem
services have obvious externality. The degree and scale of ecosystem services directly …

Natural infrastructure such as parks, forests, street trees, green roofs, and coastal vegetation
is central to sustainable urban management. Despite recent progress, it remains challenging …

Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is increasingly being used to inform urban
green infrastructure planning. We explore the use of modern cloud computing technologies …

Livability, resilience, and justice in cities are challenged by climate change and the historical
legacies that together create disproportionate impacts on human communities. Urban green …

Discussions about just transitions and nature-based solutions (NBS) often articulate an
essentialist sense of place perspective that emphasises stasis through combinations of …

The extent to which new greening initiatives contribute to gentrification processes in urban
areas is of rising interest to researchers and policymakers, but the precise (and often …