Sponsor
This study was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship program (NSF ID#2204589) and the Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District’s Tualatin River Environmental Enhancement (TREE) Grant.
Published In
Cambridge Prisms: Water
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2023
Subjects
Wetlands -- Conservation
Abstract
With climate change and urbanization, city planners and developers have increasing interest and practice in constructing, restoring, or incorporating wetlands as forms of green infrastructure to maintain water-related ecosystem services (WES). We reviewed studies that valued in functional or monetary units the water regulation and purification services of urban wetlands around the globe. We used the adaptive management cycle (AMC) as a heuristic to determine the step that a study would represent in the AMC, the connections between the cycle steps that were used or considered, and the stakeholders involved. Additionally, we identified the social, ecological, and/or technological dimension(s) of the environmental stressors and management strategies described by study authors. While use-inspired research on WES occurs throughout the globe, most studies serve to singularly assess problems or monitor urban wetlands, consider or use no connectors between steps, and involve no stakeholder groups. Both stressors and strategies were overwhelmingly multidimensional, with the social dimension represented in the majority of both. We highlight studies that successfully interfaced with cities across multiple steps, connectors, engaged stakeholder groups, and disseminated findings and skills to stakeholder groups. True use-inspired research should explicitly involve management systems that are used by city stakeholders and propose multidimensional solutions.
Rights
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press
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DOI
10.1017/wat.2023.19
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/41051
Citation Details
Sauer, J., & Chang, H. People, place, and planet: Global review of use-inspired research on water-related ecosystem services in urban wetlands. Cambridge Prisms: Water, 1-44.