Outputs

Final Project Webinar - 27th April 2021

Session 1 Video

​What is Urban Natural Capital – in Singapore and around the world?

Session 2 Video – Part 1

​How can information on Natural Capital inform decision-making?

Session 2 Video – Part 2

​How can information on Natural Capital inform decision-making?


Session 1 Slides

Natural Capital Singapore - project summary by Dr Dan Friess, NUS, Department of Geography (Lead PI)

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Integrating ecosystem services into urban planning by Dr Anne Guerry, Natural Capital Project

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An Official Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) Accounting System at Shenzhen by Dr Baolong Han, CAS, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences

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Session 2 Slides

From system knowledge to transformation – how advanced are we in integrating Natural Capital in decision-making by Prof Adrienne Gret-Regamey, ETH (Lead PI)

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Urban Natural Capital Accounting and Investment by Ian Dickie, Eftec

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Natural Capital in decision-making by Prof Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm Resilience Centre

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Research Videos

Equity of urban regulatory ecosystem service supply Singapore by Andrea Law, NUS, Department of Biological Sciences

A natural capital risk registry for Singapore by Ashleen Tan, NUS, Department of Geography

People's dynamic adaptations to changes in green space supply by Yan Yanyun, NUS, Department of Biological Sciences

Multi-functional mangroves by Jahson Alemu I, NUS, Department of Geography

Assessing the recreational value of Singapore's coral reefs by Gwendolyn Chow, NTU, Asian School of the Environment

The dynamism of Singapore's Terrestrial Ecosystems by Leon Gaw, Singapore ETH Centre


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  • Sin Ching See, Shaikh Fairul Edros Bin Shaikh, Wanggi Jaung, L. Roman Carrasco. (2020) Are relational values different in practice to instrumental values and the New Ecological Paradigm? Ecosystem Services 44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101132
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  • Friess DA, Krauss KW, Taillardat P, Adame MF, Yando ES, Cameron C, Sasmito SD & Sillanpää M. (2020). Mangrove blue carbon in the face of deforestation, climate change and restoration. Annual Plant Reviews 3(3): 427-456. https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/7726/
  • Richards DR, Waung, JW. (2020) Fusing ground level Google Street View images and satellite remote sensing to map leaf area index. Ecological Indicators 115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106342
  • Jaung W, Carrasco LR, Shaikh SFEA, Tan PY, Richard DR. (2020) Temperature and air pollution reductions by urban green spaces are highly valued in a tropical city-state. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126827
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  • Song XP, Lai HR, Wijedasa LS, Tan PY, Edwards PJ, Richards, Dr (2020) Height–diameter allometry for the management of city trees in the tropics. Environmental Research Letters 15(11). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abbbad
  • Lee WK, Tay SHX, Ooi SK, Friess DA (2021) Potential short wave attenuation function of disturbed mangroves. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106747
  • Richards DR, Law A, Tan CSY, Shaikh SFEB, Carrasco LR, Jaung W, Oh RRY. (2020) Rapid urbanisation causes a shift from provisioning and regulating to cultural ecosystem services use. Ecosystem Services 46 (101193). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101193
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  • Jaung, W., and Carrasco, L.R. (2022). A big-data analysis of human-nature relations in newspaper coverage. Geoforum 128, 11-20.
  • Jaung, W., Carrasco, L.R., Richards, D.R., Shaikh, S.F.E.A., and Tan, P.Y. (2022). The role of urban nature experiences in sustainable consumption: a transboundary urban ecosystem service. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-21.
  • Shaikh, S.F.E.A., See, S.C., Richards, D., Belcher, R.N., Grêt-Regamey, A., Galleguillos Torres, M., and Carrasco, L.R. (2021). Accounting for spatial autocorrelation is needed to avoid misidentifying trade-offs and bundles among ecosystem services. Ecol. Indic. 129, 107992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107992
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