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Ecosystem Services and poverty alleviation in urbanising contexts

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posted on 2023-06-09, 13:09 authored by Fiona MarshallFiona Marshall, Jonathan DolleyJonathan Dolley, Ramila Bisht, Ritu Priya, Linda Waldman, Priyanie Amerasinghe, Pritpal Randhawa
The impacts of urbanisation on ecosystems and the dependence of urban populations on ecosystem services are widely acknowledged but poorly understood. In the Global South, rural–urban linkages are increasingly shaped and transformed by the processes of peri-urbanisation, through which rural areas become increasingly enmeshed in a mosaic of rural and urban land use and juxtaposed rural and urban livelihoods and overlapping institutions. Peri-urban areas are frontiers of sustainability transformations, where deep and sustained engagement with communities of the poor, and enhanced understanding of dynamic ecosystem service-poverty alleviation interactions, can reveal possibilities to improve the health and livelihoods of both urban and peri-urban residents, whilst also supporting more effective, efficient and equitable management of environmental resources. We demonstrate this through an example of peri-urban food systems in the outskirts of Delhi, India.

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Routledge

Page range

111-125

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325.0

Book title

Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: trade-offs and governance (OPEN ACCESS)

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9780429507090

Series

Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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Georgina Mace, Mahesh Poudyal, Kate Schreckenberg

Legacy Posted Date

2018-05-04

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-05-04

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-05-04

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