Rediscovering the value of urban rivers

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• 作者：Mark Everard (12) mark@pundamilia.co.uk
  Helen L. Moggridge (3) h.l.moggridge@sheffield.ac.uk
• 关键词：Urban rivers &#8211 ; Ecosystem services &#8211 ; Mayes Brook &#8211 ; Societal benefits &#8211 ; Lost rivers &#8211 ; River restoration
• 刊名：Urban Ecosystems
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：June 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：15
• 期：2
• 页码：293-314
• 全文大小：247.4 KB
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• 作者单位：1. Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay Campus, Bristol, BS16 1QY UK2. 2 Hollow Street, Great Somerford, Wiltshire, SN15 5JD UK3. Catchment Science Centre, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S10 2TN UK
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Ecology
  Environmental Management
  Nature Conservation
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1642

文摘

Rivers commonly serve as defining, founding features of human settlements, yet urbanisation has degraded them, often to the extent that they no longer provide the services to society from which the settlements developed. Urban river restoration has expanded in recent years and part of this can be attributed to the increased recognition of the interconnected benefits that restored ecosystems can provide to society. This paper reviews the impact of urbanisation on rivers and the ecosystem services that they provide, and explores the ecosystem approach to restoration. Techniques and tools for the practical application of the ecosystem services approach in conservation are considered, with reference to case studies. There is a need to internalise ecosystem service insights into pragmatic, transparent and readily-used and understood planning tools, based on the capacities of a range of ecosystem services in river corridors. This is necessary if we are to avoid the continued erosion of critical resources such as rivers, rediscovering their multiple values to society, and to accelerate the translation of these sustainability concepts into applied tools.