Parques&Sociedade #8

Parks and other urban green areas provide a series of ecosystem services (ES) that are essential to people’s health and well-being. Therefore, it is crucial that the management teams of these spaces have access to instruments that allow them to assess the ecosystem services available in urban green areas, using the results of these assessments to develop actions to improve these natural resources. To support managers in this endeavor, this issue of Parques&Sociedade brings a Brazilian study that proposes a methodological approach to assist with the diagnosis of the ecosystem services (SE) provided by urban parks, the Index of Ecosystem Services for Green Areas (Índice de Serviços Ecossistêmicos para Áreas Verdes – ISEAV).