Dushkova Diana, Konstantinova Anastasia, Matasov Victor, Gaeva Dara, Dovletyarova Elvira, Taherkhani Mina
Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems; Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Permoser str. 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany.
Agrarian and Technological Institute, Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6, Moscow, Russia, 117198.
Ambio. 2025 Apr;54(4):577-602. doi: 10.1007/s13280-024-02102-8. Epub 2024 Nov 23.
Research on urban ecosystem services (ES) covers many regions globally, yet significant gaps remain in several areas, including Russia. Furthermore, the number of publications on Russian ES is still very low, and most of them focus on ES assessment on the national level which results in an incomplete understanding of ES provision in Russian cities. To fill this gap, 197 publications on urban ES have been systematically reviewed. Those mostly included research on urban ES in Russia as well as in other cities of the world that represented case studies within international collaborations of Russian scientists with other partners. The paper presents the main aspects of the ES concept adoption and operationalizing in the Russian scientific discourse, by providing an overview of the current research on the relationships between humans and urban ecosystems. Spatially, the majority of studies focused on large cities; herewith field surveys, statistical analysis, expert evaluations, and mapping were often used as the main research methods. Four key challenge areas have been revealed: anthropogenic pressure on soils and vegetation, urban green spaces (UGS) and their quantity and quality for ES provision, the value of ES assessment for urban planning, and payments for ES. To address these challenges, future research should focus on the role of urban ES for city resilience and sustainability, ecosystem disservices, rural-urban interactions, broader testing and validation of ES mapping and assessment as well as better integration of ES in economic, regulatory and compensation mechanisms.
对城市生态系统服务（ES）的研究覆盖了全球许多地区，但在包括俄罗斯在内的几个领域仍存在显著差距。此外，关于俄罗斯生态系统服务的出版物数量仍然非常少，而且其中大部分集中在国家层面的生态系统服务评估上，这导致对俄罗斯城市生态系统服务供给的理解不完整。为了填补这一空白，对197篇关于城市生态系统服务的出版物进行了系统回顾。这些出版物大多包括俄罗斯城市以及世界其他城市的城市生态系统服务研究，这些研究代表了俄罗斯科学家与其他合作伙伴在国际合作中的案例研究。本文通过概述当前关于人类与城市生态系统关系的研究，介绍了俄罗斯科学话语中生态系统服务概念的采用和实施的主要方面。在空间上，大多数研究集中在大城市；在此过程中，实地调查、统计分析、专家评估和绘图经常被用作主要研究方法。揭示了四个关键挑战领域：人为对土壤和植被的压力、城市绿地（UGS）及其为生态系统服务提供的数量和质量、生态系统服务评估对城市规划的价值以及生态系统服务付费。为应对这些挑战，未来的研究应关注城市生态系统服务对城市复原力和可持续性的作用、生态系统负服务、城乡互动、对生态系统服务绘图和评估进行更广泛的测试和验证，以及将生态系统服务更好地整合到经济、监管和补偿机制中。
