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Urban Ecosystem Service Provision and Social-Environmental Justice in the City of Leipzig, Germany

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Urban green and blue spaces provide a number of ecosystem services [1], among them the potential to regulate climate and provide recreational benefits.

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  1. Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Nadja Kabisch

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan Klotz

  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Ralf Seppelt

  5. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Cornelia Baessler

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Kabisch, N. (2019). Urban Ecosystem Service Provision and Social-Environmental Justice in the City of Leipzig, Germany. 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_53

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