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Title: A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia
Authors: Lourdes, Karen T.
Gibbins, Chris N.
Hamel, Perrine
Sanusi, Ruzana
Azhar, Badrul
Lechner, Alex M.
Keywords: Science::Geology
Issue Date: 2021
Source: Lourdes, K. T., Gibbins, C. N., Hamel, P., Sanusi, R., Azhar, B. & Lechner, A. M. (2021). A review of urban ecosystem services research in Southeast Asia. Land, 10(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10010040
Project: NRFF12-2020-0009 
Journal: Land 
Abstract: Urban blue-green spaces hold immense potential for supporting the sustainability and liveability of cities through the provision of urban ecosystem services (UES). However, research on UES in the Global South has not been reviewed as systematically as in the Global North. In Southeast Asia, the nature and extent of the biases, imbalances and gaps in UES research are unclear. We address this issue by conducting a systematic review of UES research in Southeast Asia over the last twenty years. Our findings draw attention to the unequal distribution of UES research within the region, and highlight common services, scales and features studied, as well as methods undertaken in UES research. We found that while studies tend to assess regulating and cultural UES at a landscape scale, few studies examined interactions between services by assessing synergies and tradeoffs. Moreover, the bias in research towards megacities in the region may overlook less-developed nations, rural areas, and peri-urban regions and their unique perspectives and preferences towards UES management. We discuss the challenges and considerations for integrating and conducting research on UES in Southeast Asia based on its unique and diverse socio-cultural characteristics. We conclude our review by highlighting aspects of UES research that need more attention in order to support land use planning and decision-making in Southeast Asia.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146820
ISSN: 2073-445X
DOI: 10.3390/land10010040
Schools: Asian School of the Environment 
Rights: © 2021 The Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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