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Contribution of Ecosystem Services to Air Quality and Climate Change Mitigation Policies: The Case of Urban Forests in Barcelona,Spain
Authors:Francesc Baró  Lydia Chaparro  Erik Gómez-Baggethun  Johannes Langemeyer  David J. Nowak  Jaume Terradas
Affiliation:1. Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Campus UAB, Building C, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
2. Ecologistas en Acción, Marqués de Leganés, 12, 28004, Madrid, Spain
3. USDA Forest Service, SUNY-ESF, 5 Moon Library, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA
4. Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Campus UAB, Building C, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:Mounting research highlights the contribution of ecosystem services provided by urban forests to quality of life in cities, yet these services are rarely explicitly considered in environmental policy targets. We quantify regulating services provided by urban forests and evaluate their contribution to comply with policy targets of air quality and climate change mitigation in the municipality of Barcelona, Spain. We apply the i-Tree Eco model to quantify in biophysical and monetary terms the ecosystem services “air purification,” “global climate regulation,” and the ecosystem disservice “air pollution” associated with biogenic emissions. Our results show that the contribution of urban forests regulating services to abate pollution is substantial in absolute terms, yet modest when compared to overall city levels of air pollution and GHG emissions. We conclude that in order to be effective, green infrastructure-based efforts to offset urban pollution at the municipal level have to be coordinated with territorial policies at broader spatial scales.
Keywords:Air purification   Cities   Climate regulation   Urban ecosystem services   Urban forests   Policy targets
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