Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation - Ecosystem Services and Air Pollution – Nature’s Main Provider Interconnects Forest and Cities to Regulate Air Quality

Nature’s ability to reduce air pollution should be accounted for in global efforts to preserve and restore air filtration capacity. While reducing emission is vital, however, it must be tied to ecosystem services. Given that cities are one of the main agents of pollutant emission, environmental policies to restore and recover urban vegetation and technological advances to reduce urban emission are equally relevant are equally relevant to the conservation of existing forests and wild vegetation. The future points to the need to rethink the relationship between cities and nature, especially in regard to urban forests.