NDLI: Mainstreaming urban ecosystem services: A national survey of municipal foresters

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Author	Young, Robert F.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Researchers and advocates are calling for ecosystem services management to advance from theory to implementation. To do so, they argue, requires two things: information on the science and practice ecosystem services management to be more widely developed and distributed, and support for ecosystem services management be incorporated into decision-making. These changes require adding to urban ecology an understanding of the political and information relationships supporting work in this field. To gain insight into these relationships I surveyed the national membership of the Society for Municipal Arborists about their efforts in managing municipal green space to produce ecosystem services. A significant percentage of respondents reported their organizations currently engaged in managing green space assets to produce ecosystem services and predicted such activities would increase over time. Foresters noted they relied on public and informal peer relationships as primary information sources in these efforts and reported little interface with private sector entities, viewing the latter, rather as most likely to constrain their efforts to enhance the production of ecosystem services. While foresters noted that they sought information from public and academic sources, the foresters themselves were less frequently sought out for their expertise. Respondents, however, foresaw becoming engaged in more reciprocal relationships around information exchange. The private sector’s absence in these relationships suggests insufficient legal and regulatory structures necessary to support private engagement in the growing demand for urban ecosystem services. The broad base of local grassroots and public support, however, suggest the emergence of constituencies that could lay the basis for new coalitions to advance green infrastructure and its related ecosystem services into the mainstream of municipal resource management.
Starting Page	703
Ending Page	722
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10838155
Journal	Urban Ecosystems
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15731642
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-01-24
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Green infrastructure Ecosystemservices Political support Information Society of Municipal Arborists Urban forest Implementation Urban Ecology Environmental Management Ecology Nature Conservation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Urban Studies

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