Reviewing The Ecosystem Services Provided By Urban Green Spaces In Africa

Ousseini ASSOUMANE GUERO, Maarouhi INOUSSA MAMAN, Mahamane MANSOUR, Soumana DOUMA, Yacoubou BAKASSO, Ali MAHAMANE

Abstract


Urban green spaces are an important ecological infrastructure as they provide a range of ecosystem services and goods that are vital to human well-being and maintain the biodiversity in cities especially in this urbanizing world. Thus, to analyze the state of knowledge on research already performed on urban green spaces ecosystem services in African cities, a literature review about urban forestry was carried out using Google Scholar engine. The analysis of the one hundred and forty seven (147) selected papers reveals an uneven geographical distribution of urban forestry research in Africa. Countries like South Africa, Nigeria, Benin and Ghana recorded the highest number of publications on ecosystem services studies, in opposite to others. On the African continent, studies about urban green spaces ecosystem services draw attention to a wide range of ecosystem services that can be obtained from urban trees especially after the year 2018 where the number of scientific articles published increased to an average of seventeen (17) publications per year. Results highlighted that the most ecosystem services categories studied related to urban forest ecosystem services are regulating services (88 studies), followed by cultural ones (72 studies) compared to provisioning services (48 studies) which received the least attention from respondents. This review also revealed that studies on green spaces remain very limited at African scale. Consequently, scientific research should focus on urban forestry in these developing countries experiencing rapid and uncontrolled urbanization coupled with climate change noxious effects.

Keywords


Green spaces, ecosystem services, biodiversity, urban forestry, cities, Africa.

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