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Project partner city: Barcelona

Located in eastern Spain, Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and has a population of 5 million in the metropolitan region.

Barcelona is host city to our URBES project partner Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Contact person is , leader for URBES Work Package 5: Synthesis and Multi Criteria Evaluation.


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New from Barcelona

A new paper from Gomez, E and Barton, D.N, is in press in Ecological Economics: "Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning"

Highlights: Urban ecosystems provide multiple ecosystem services for human well-being and can increase resilience to shocks.

Loss of urban ecosystems involve long-term economic and insurance costs and can affect many social and cultural values.

Valuation should not only take into account benefits from ecosystem services but also costs from ecosystem disservices.

Economic and non-economic values of urban ecosystem services should be accounted for in urban decision-making and planning.