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ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
卷 24, 期 5, 页码 7324-7348出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01748-8
关键词
Ecosystem services; Ecosystem function; Recreation; Valuation; Land use; Delhi
The Southern and Eastern National Capital Region of Delhi is experiencing increasing urbanization, with urban sprawl activities more frequent than urban densification activities. The ecosystem services value is decreasing, with some services increasing while others, like food production and genetic resources, are decreasing. Prioritizing conservation and enrichment of critical ecosystems will lead to sustainable development of urban ecosystems.
The Southern and Eastern National Capital Region of Delhi is experiencing diversified and expanding urbanization as in million-plus cities of the area the urban sprawl activities are more frequent than the urban densification activities. The progressing sprawl of residential and construction sites is transforming the regional ecosystems and hampering the generation of ecosystem services of fundamental importance, i.e. the benefits and services that we get directly or indirectly from the ecosystem functioning. The Costanza et al., (2014) approach shows that the ecosystem services value has decreased at US$ 56 ha(-1) year(-1) (0.09% per year) and absolute and cumulative losses are estimated US$ 285.4 ha(-1) year(-1) and US$ 502.8 ha(-1) year(-1), respectively. The ecosystem service values assessment shows that the ecosystem services like climate regulation and recreation have increased but food production, genetic resources, water supply, soil formation, raw materials and waste treatment have decreased over the time. The use of alternative ecosystem value coefficient shows that the estimated value of the ecosystem service value changed from a low of 0.005% for 1% change in the value of the forest coefficient, to a high of 0.749% for a 1% change in the value of the agricultural land coefficient. For each land use/land cover category, the sensitivity analysis reflects the inelasticity or robustness of the estimated ecosystem value with respect to the value coefficient. Overall, prioritizing the conservation and enrichment of natural and man-made ecosystems of critical value will lead to sustainable development of urban ecosystems.
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