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3. Russia's Most Highly Populated Cities TEEB-Russia Biodiversity Conservation Center ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF RUSSIA PROTOTYPE OF THE NATIONAL REPORT Volume 3 Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services of Russia’s Largest Cities Edited by O. A. Klimanova Moscow – 2021 ISBN 978-5-93699-106-6 © Biodiversity Conservation Center, 2021 Report edited by O. A. Klimanova Authors: K.A. Aleksandriiskaia (section 4.2.2), K.V. Avilova (section 4.2.3), O.A. Illarionova (sections 3.1–3.4, 6.1), T.I. Kharitonova (sections 5.1–5.4), O.A. Klimanova (sections 1, 2.1–2.4, 3.3–3.4, 4.1, 4.3, 6.1–6.2), E.Yu. Kolbovskii (sections 2.4, 4.1, 4.3, 6.1–6.2), K.A. Merekalova (sections 5.1–5.4), L.D. Sulkarnaeva (sections 5.1–5.4). German experts: K. Grunewald, R.-U. Syrbe (IOER Dresden). The translation of the Russian text into English was done by O.A. Illarionova and L.D. Sulkarnaeva. For the language polishing we would like to thank Derek Henderson (translator), Dresden. Recommended citation: Klimanova, O. A. (Ed). 2021. Ecosystem services of Russia: Prototype National Report. Vol. 3. Green infrastructure and ecosystem services of Russia’s largest cities. Moscow: BCC Press. The book was prepared and published as part of the project “Assessment of ecosystems and their ser- vices in the Russian Federation”. The project was commissioned by the German Federal Agency for Na- ture Conservation (BfN) and the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) and funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The project is supported by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (MNR) with the active participation of experts from the Biodiversity Conservation Center (Moscow), the Leibniz Insti- tute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Dresden), the Lomonosov Moscow State University (the faculties of Geography and Biology), the University of Tyumen. Project coordinators: A. R. Grigoryan (BCC), K. Grunewald (IOER). Project scientific leader: E. N. Bukvareva (BCC). Project website: http://teeb.biodiversity.ru/en/ Content Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 4 1. Key Messages ................................................................................................................................ 5 2. Aim of the report and analytical methods ...................................................................................... 8 2.1. Aim and objectives ............................................................................................................................ 8 2.2. The main terms and assessment approaches ................................................................................... 8 2.2.1. Cities as objects of ecosystem services assessment ................................................................................ 8 2.2.2. Classification and assessment of urban ecosystem services .................................................................. 10 2.3. Spatial scales of analysis and data sources ..................................................................................... 10 2.4. Data processing and analytical methods ........................................................................................ 11 2.4.1. The level of cities .................................................................................................................................... 11 2.4.2. The level of Moscow’s municipalities ..................................................................................................... 12 3. Russia’s most highly populated cities ........................................................................................... 14 3.1. General characteristics of the case studies .................................................................................... 14 3.2. Green infrastructure ....................................................................................................................... 15 3.3. Biodiversity conservation ............................................................................................................... 21 3.4. Ecosystem services ......................................................................................................................... 24 3.4.1. Regulating services ................................................................................................................................. 24 3.4.1.1. Removal of air pollution from vehicles ........................................................................................................... 24 3.4.1.2. Removal of air pollution from stationary point sources ................................................................................. 27 3.4.1.3. Urban microclimate regulation: cooling effect ............................................................................................... 33 3.4.2. Provisioning services: food production .................................................................................................. 35 3.4.3. Cultural services: forming natural conditions for recreation ................................................................. 36 4. Moscow ...................................................................................................................................... 42 4.1. General characteristics of nature and landscape ........................................................................... 42 4.2. Moscow’s green infrastructure: its current condition, the history of management and main problems ........................................................................................................................ 43 4.2.1. Land-use structure ................................................................................................................................. 43 4.2.2. Moscow’s protected areas ..................................................................................................................... 49 4.2.2.1. The main problems ......................................................................................................................................... 49 4.2.2.2. Impact of recreation on Moscow’s protected areas ....................................................................................... 51 4.2.2.3. The degree of fragmentation of protected areas ........................................................................................... 53 4.2.3. The history of green infrastructure management in Moscow and modern problems of biodiversity conservation in the city .................................................................................................. 56 4.2.3.1. The main stages of nature conservation in Moscow ...................................................................................... 56 4.2.3.2. History of the forest-park protective belt of Moscow .................................................................................... 57 4.2.3.3. New Moscow .................................................................................................................................................. 61 4.2.3.4. Natural areas of Moscow within the Moscow Ring Road ............................................................................... 65 4.3. Ecosystem services of Moscow....................................................................................................... 75 5. Tyumen ....................................................................................................................................... 80 5.1. Formation and management of green infrastructure in the city of Tyumen ................................. 80 5.2. Modern blue-green infrastructure of the city of Tyumen .............................................................. 81 5.3. Modern urban geosystems of the city of Tyumen ......................................................................... 83 5.4. Ecosystem services of the city of Tyumen ...................................................................................... 86 5.4.1. Recreational services: forming natural conditions for daily recreation ................................................. 87 5.4.2. Urban microclimate regulation: cooling effect ...................................................................................... 91 6. The principles of managing urban green infrastructure ................................................................. 94 6.1. The problems of urban green infrastructure in General Plans of cities ......................................... 94 6.2. The priorities of green infrastructure planning in Russia’s most populated cities ......................... 95 7. References .................................................................................................................................. 97 3 Introduction The Russian-German project “TEEB-Russia” (https://teeb.biodiversity.ru/ru/) is being conducted by the Biodiversity Conservation Center (Moscow) in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Dresden) in accordance with the decision of 23 May 2012 of the permanent Russian-German working group “Conservation of Nature and Biological Diversity”. The pro- ject is supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), and by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation. The TEEB-Russia project
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