Urban environmental quality and wellbeing in the context of incomplete urbanisation in Brazil: Integrating directly experienced ecosystem services into planning

The benefits of urban greenspace to residents are increasingly recognized as important planning for sustainable and healthy cities. However, the way that people interact with benefit from is context dependent conditioned by a range social material factors. This paper applies expands ecosystems services based approach understanding environmental quality in which appropriated incomplete urbanization three peri-urban target areas Brazil. We develop employ notion indirect (scientifically detected) directly experienced services, undertake science ecosystem assessment qualitative analysis interviews, walking narratives images captured smartphone application understand what functions serves daily life studied neighborhoods. Findings demonstrate how elements can be termed serve both signifying produce subjective collective dis-benefits hinge on aspects livability such service delivery, housing status perceptions crime neighborhood character. identify factors enable, hinder motivate active interpretative interactions greenspace. findings suggest relationship between provision wellbeing better understood reciprocal rather than one way. Although at scale, fear poor access positive engagements form ES, squares fringe vegetation also being address disadvantages. Presently however these local overlooked formal conservation efforts compromised growing population density degradation. make recommendations nuanced human-nature associated an context, discuss potential initiatives could employed articulate nurture our areas.