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Shrinking Cities and Ecosystem Services: Opportunities, Planning, Challenges, and Risks

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Which ecosystem services are addressed? Air filtration, air cooling, physical and mental recreation, food production, flood regulation.

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Haase, D., Haase, A., Rink, D., Quanz, J. (2019). Shrinking Cities and Ecosystem Services: Opportunities, Planning, Challenges, and Risks. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_42

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