Optimizing Peri-URban Ecosystems (PURE) to re-couple urban-rural symbiosis

Zhu, Yong-Guan, Reid, Brian J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9613-979X, Meharg, Andrew A., Banwart, Steve A. and Fu, Bo-Jie (2017) Optimizing Peri-URban Ecosystems (PURE) to re-couple urban-rural symbiosis. Science of the Total Environment, 586. 1085–1090. ISSN 0048-9697

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Abstract

Globally, rapid urbanization, along with economic development, is dramatically changing the balance of biogeochemical cycles, impacting upon ecosystem services and impinging on United Nation global sustainability goals (inter alia: sustainable cities and communities; responsible consumption and production; good health and well-being; clean water and sanitation, and; to protect and conserve life on land and below water). A key feature of the urban ecosystems is that nutrient stocks, carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), are being enriched. Furthermore, urban ecosystems are highly engineered, biogeochemical cycling of nutrients within urban ecosystems is spatially segregated, and nutrients exported (e.g. in food) from rural/peri-urban areas are not being returned to support primary production in these environments. To redress these imbalances we propose the concept of the Peri-URban Ecosystem (PURE). Through the merging of conceptual approaches that relate to Critical Zone science and the dynamics of successional climax PURE serves at the symbiotic interface between rural/natural and urban ecosystems and allow re-coupling of resource flows. PURE provides a framework for tackling the most pressing of societal challenges and supporting global sustainability goals.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 6 - clean water and sanitation,sdg 11 - sustainable cities and communities,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/clean_water_and_sanitation
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Geosciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Feb 2017 19:16
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2023 00:54
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62642
DOI:	10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.094

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