{"id":18031,"date":"2020-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/06\/08\/singapores-urban-development-and-ecosystem-services\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:20:26","slug":"singapores-urban-development-and-ecosystem-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/06\/08\/singapores-urban-development-and-ecosystem-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s Urban Development and Ecosystem Services"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: ‘Interior of Cleantech One’ by Kelman Chiang from SRN’s SG Photobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From 23 to 25 June 2008, Singapore hosted the first World Cities\u2019 Summit, which focused on the development of sustainable cities. The event has since become a biennial conference, jointly organized by the Centre for Livable Cities and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore, with more than 122 leaders from 117 cities around the world in attendance at its 2018 iteration.<\/p>\n

In \u2018Singapore as a long-term case study for tropical urban ecosystem services\u2019 (Urban Ecosystems,<\/em> 2016), Associate Professor Daniel Friess from the NUS Department of Geography presents an in-depth study of Singapore\u2019s urban planning over the years. Tracing Singapore\u2019s developmental trajectory, A\/P Friess examines four specific time frames\u2014pre-Independence, post-Independence, contemporary (2000-2016), and future (2017-2061). He highlights Singapore\u2019s \u2018Garden City\u2019 vision which emerged in 1967 and goes into details of cultural, watershed protection and microclimate regulation ecosystem services following this direction of urban planning and policy making. Addressing Singapore\u2019s limitations in natural resources, exacerbated by the city\u2019s rapid growth and increasing population, A\/P Friess emphasizes the importance of these ecosystem services to provide basic necessities and physical well-being to the people as well as economic benefits to the country.<\/p>\n

As a nation that has incorporated ecosystem services into large-scale planning, A\/P Friess notes how Singapore has established its own City Biodiversity Index, a new framework that evaluates urban biodiversity, ecosystem services, and conservation efforts, which has since been implemented in many other cities globally. The study is thus important in presenting Singapore as a unique and alternative case study in a research field that has been dominated by a focus on temperate ecosystem services in western urban locations, a national model that may provide insight into future development of contemporary global cities.<\/p>\n

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