The mutual benefits of promoting rural-urban interdependence through linked ecosystem services

Gebre, Tewelde; Gebremedhin, Berhanu

doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00707

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“…Nowadays, the world is getting more urbanized than ever (Gebre and Gebremedhin 2019). In the history of the planet Earth, it was in 2008 and onwards that the urban population exceeds the rural residents (UN 2008).…”

Section: The Urban-rural Nexusmentioning

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Natural resource degradation tendencies in Ethiopia: a review

Wassie

2020

Environ Syst Res

259

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Background Ethiopia is gifted with abundant natural resources of adequate landmass, fertile soil, favorable climate, water, wildlife, and others. Many of its resources are not properly identified, well managed, and fully exploited. The concern of this review is collating the current state of knowledge about the status of land, water, forest, rangeland and wildlife resources, and hence, assesses their degradation tendencies. Results In Ethiopia, natural resources are under the influence of various interconnected factors like population pressure, agricultural expansion, migration, rapid urbanization, resettlement, climate change, and environmental pollution. Its huge population number had been putting a great burden on the sustainability of almost all types of natural resources. There is, therefore, serious degradation of land, water, forest, rangeland, and wildlife resources that appear to feed off each other. This results in severe soil loss, low vegetative cover, unsustainable farming practice, continuous use of dung and crop residues for fuel, overgrazing, and destruction and/or migration of wildlife, which again are intensifying the degradation of available resources in a vicious circle. The process ends with amplified environmental consequences such as water quality deterioration, biodiversity decline, and averts ecosystem services. It further recapitulates towards diverse socio-economic problems, political instability, marginalization, poverty, and recurrent natural hazards. The Ethiopian governments have taken several steps to address these problems like launching soil and water conservation campaign, tree planting programs, and others; success to date, however, has been limited. Conclusions Special attention has to be given to properly manage the natural resources and ecosystems; so that, it can continue to provide the goods and services the population need.

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Section: The Urban-rural Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural resource degradation tendencies in Ethiopia: a review

Wassie

2020

Environ Syst Res

259

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“…Transaction of goods and services is one of the most important elements of rural-urban linkages. Cities depend on rural resources, for example, agriculture products, water, and others [22]. Rural inhabitants buy durable and non-durable goods for household use as well as to enhance production.…”

Section: Typologies Of Rural-urban Linkagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rural areas depend on cities, as it provides employment, health, education, emergency services, markets, and information to the rural population. Similarly, cities depend on rural areas for labor, food, and other ecological services [22]. There is a general consensus but limited evidence that these complex dependencies and linkages may be affected due to the impacts of weather or climatic events and can influence the vulnerability of rural households [18,23].…”

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A Conceptual Framework to Understand the Dynamics of Rural–Urban Linkages for Rural Flood Vulnerability

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Rural areas are highly vulnerable to floods due to limited social, economic, and physical resources. Understanding rural vulnerability is vital for developing effective disaster risk reduction strategies. Even though rural areas and cities are intrinsically linked, rural vulnerability was assessed without considering its relation to cities. Numerous theoretical frameworks on systemizing and assessing vulnerability were developed with varying level of scope and depth in terms of scale, dimensions, and components. Nevertheless, these frameworks did not explicitly mention the impact of flood or other hazards on the linkages between spatial units i.e., rural and urban. This study aims to understand and conceptualize the rural vulnerability with respect to the dynamics of rural–urban linkages in the case of flood events. To do so, current literature on rural–urban linkages, vulnerability, as well as factors that influence them were critically reviewed. Taking into account the main elements of rural–urban linkages (flow of people, information, finances, goods and services), components of vulnerability (exposure, susceptibility, and capacity), and factors (social, economic, institutional, infrastructural, spatial, and environmental), a unified framework is proposed. The framework underscores that the role of rural–urban linkages is essential to fully understand rural flood vulnerability. Moreover, the framework highlights the role of spatial factors—city size and proximity to the city—as crucial to comprehend rural vulnerability. This framework can be used as a tool for understanding multifaceted rural vulnerability for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction considering spatial development perspective. In this context, empirical investigations can be made to validate the proposed framework and policies can be introduced accordingly. Overall, the proposed framework can help recognize concepts and links of vulnerability, rural–urban dependencies, and rural development dynamics.

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“…The report also provides examples of cooperation between rural and urban actors involved in agriculture and water management. In contrast, Gebre and Gebremedhin (2019) stress the mutual benefits from ecosystem-based interlinkages between urban and rural areas, but call for good management (including the protection of rural services) in the face of an increased urban demand for rural resources.…”

Section: The Ecosystem Service Concept and Urban-rural Relationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In addition, a growing number of studies have shown the variety of material and nonmaterial interlinkages between distinct urban and rural areas (e.g. Tacoli 1998;Stead 2002;Buciega et al 2009;Gebre and Gebremedhin 2019). Many observers consider urban-rural linkages to be an important element for economic development and for achieving greater sustainability, which has led to them identifying policy fields and agendas for promoting urban-rural linkages, cooperation and integrated partnerships (Akkoyunlu 2015;OECD 2013;UN-Habitat 2017;MUFPP 2015;Piorr et al 2011;Wolff and Mederake 2019;DV 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Urban-Rural Interrelations—A Challenge for Sustainable Land Management

Doernberg

Weith

2020

Human-Environment Interactions

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Although the relevance of urban-rural interrelations is widely acknowledged in science and practice, there is as yet no feasible theoretical or theory-driven approach or model that addresses the multiple interconnections in urban-rural spaces at the regional level and makes them applicable to actors in policy and planning practice. In this chapter, we give a short overview of how the topic has developed; present core concepts for urban-rural interrelations; and discuss their applicability and potential improvements by integrating other concepts and connecting governance debates. In the process, we develop new ideas for the analysis and governance of regional functional interrelations in a bid to improve sustainable land management. Keywords Urban-rural interrelations • Land management • Telecoupling • Regional governance A. Doernberg (B) Working Group "Land Use Decisions in the Spatial and System Context",

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The mutual benefits of promoting rural-urban interdependence through linked ecosystem services

Cited by 114 publications

References 41 publications

Natural resource degradation tendencies in Ethiopia: a review

Natural resource degradation tendencies in Ethiopia: a review

A Conceptual Framework to Understand the Dynamics of Rural–Urban Linkages for Rural Flood Vulnerability

Urban-Rural Interrelations—A Challenge for Sustainable Land Management

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