Ecosystem functions offer a robust framework for managing complex environmental challenges associated with modern metropolises. Comprehensive urban ecosystem approach, face certain urban areas, such as urban waterfronts, as valuable natural resources interrelated to the entire urban environment, aiming to provide strategic solutions for enhancement integrated ecosystem services. This paper argues that we should consider ecosystem functions within the city as dynamic, hybrid and living ecosystems lying between the city and the nature. This approach provides new key aspects for policy makers and planners, particularly as urban sustainability, resilience, and environmental crisis, increasingly reshape cities and elevate consideration of these topics.
The paper highlights the economic contributions of Thermaikos Gulf ecosystem goods and services to the city’s welfare, and recommends actions and investments required to ensure that they are valued and integrated into metropolitan policy decision-making.
Keywords: urban ecosystem, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, metropolitan planning, metropolitan governance
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