Urban green: Integrating ecosystem extent and condition as a basis for ecosystem accounts: examples from the Oslo region

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The article enhances the knowledge base for assessment of urban ecosystem services, within UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA), which is based on spatial extent accounts (area of ecosystems) and biophysical condition accounts (ecological state of ecosystems). Case studies from the Oslo region are explored, combining land use/land cover maps from Statistics Norway with satellite data. The approach suggests that especially in an urban context, extent and condition accounts are not separate approaches as suggested by SEEA EEA but should be integrated for ecosystem accounting. Moreover, the basic spatial unit should not be fixed, as suggested by SEEA EEA, but should reflect that modelling of different ecosystem services, as basis for trade-offs in urban planning, requires different spatial units to capture urban green elements.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 941

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth ; Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy
• Subject: Experimental ecosystem accounting ; ecosystem services ; urban ecosystems ; spatial analysis ; land use maps ; land cover maps

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Garnåsjordet, Per Arild ; Steinnes, Margrete ; Cimburova, Zofie ; Nowell, Megan ; Barton, David N. ; Aslaksen, Iulie
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Statistics Norway, Research Department
• (where): Oslo
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/249131
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET