Urban sprawl is a widely recognized phenomenon in many major cities worldwide and is a
significant land use planning and management issue. This process has many impacts on the …

Urban green infrastructures (GI) are important features of cities which provide many
ecosystem services promoting citizens' well-being. As space is often limited in cities for …

Natural stormwater treatment systems (NTS) are built ecosystems designed to capture and
treat stormwater runoff via natural processes. Although NTS design typically targets water …

In this chapter, we argue for the need to take a complex systems approach to understand
urbanization and its impacts based on its key variables and drivers: agents, emergence, self …

This study aims to evaluate the non-market values of ecosystem services generated by
wetlands in southern Quebec. To accomplish this, we evaluated the value of wetland …

In public or political affairs, civic engagement in transitioning from institutional channels to
less formal modes of participation, which have an immediate impact on the local space. For …

This study explores the willingness to pay (WTP) for an improvement of the environmental
situation in agricultural areas with a specific focus on landscape aesthetics. We used the …

Forests provide a variety of resources and benefits, but only a few, such as timber, are
traded on the markets. Ecosystem service valuation is a method for quantifying the non …

Environmental inequality is a phenomenon drawing much attention in the scientific and
policy-making debates about urban forests and city greening. Most studies on the subject …

A study on the perception of vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change (CC) was
realised among 27 small private forest owners (SPFOs) of a region in southern Quebec. In …