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Sub-urban Ecosystem Payments

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TURAS
Expert contact: Aleksandar Slaev

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Resource description:

Guidelines (including a toolkit) for assessing the value of the ecosystem services provided by natural areas/green infrastructure in suburban locations.

Advantages:

  • The first step towards the establishment of a relevant regime of use is to assess the value of resources, and to this end, a system of payments for natural resources is the most efficient way to regulate their consumption. Among the variety of ways to ass
  • This tool focuses on: institutional sustainability, economic sustainability , ecological sustainability.
  • Main outcomes: economic benefit, process innovation, physical improvements.

Constraints:

  • Suburbanization and urban sprawl are typical patterns of growing European cities. Whereas the growth of cities is principally a powerful positive trend, urban expansion is associated with various negative trends. This is due to urban sprawl is characteriz

Uses of this resource:

The main reason for the overconsumption of the above-mentioned resources (natural land, greenery, landscapes, environment, biodiversity, and agricultural land) is that natural amenities in suburban areas are underpriced or unpriced, mainly because natural amenities are open-source resources. To solve such a problem, the establishment of public property rights and a relevant regime of use is essential.

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WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED?

FACILITATORY (PUBLIC) BODIES: 
planning and development department; socio-economic development department; land use planning department; environmental and sustainability department; green spaces department; policy development department

LOCAL TASK FORCE: 
local or regional authority; professional expert

SUITABLE FOR: 
urban region; urban-rural interface

MAIN NECESSARY RESOURCES ARE: 
public institutional set-up; legal legitimisation; expert knowledge

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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