With climate change and urbanization, city planners and developers have increasing interest and practice in constructing, restoring, or incorporating wetlands as forms of green infrastructure to maintain water-related ecosystem services (WES). We reviewed studies that valued in functional or monetary units the water regulation and purification services of urban wetlands around the globe. We used the adaptive management cycle (AMC) as a heuristic to determine the step that a study would represent in the AMC, the connections between the cycle steps that were used or considered, and the stakeholders involved. Additionally, we identified the social, ecological, and/or technological dimension(s) of the environmental stressors and management strategies described by study authors. While use-inspired research on WES occurs throughout the globe, most studies serve to singularly assess problems or monitor urban wetlands, consider or use no connectors between steps, and involve no stakeholder groups. Both stressors and strategies were overwhelmingly multidimensional, with the social dimension represented in the majority of both. We highlight studies that successfully interfaced with cities across multiple steps, connectors, engaged stakeholder groups, and disseminated findings and skills to stakeholder groups. True use-inspired research should explicitly involve management systems that are used by city stakeholders and propose multidimensional solutions.
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People, place, and planet: Global review of use-inspired research on water-related ecosystem services in urban wetlands
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Participatory approaches for water monitoring and harvesting: Case study from India
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Back to the future: A personal perspective on water and climate change – ERRATUM
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Decision support tools for sustainable water management: Lessons learned from two decades of using MULINO-DSS
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Water security risks in small, remote, indigenous communities in Canada: A critical review on challenges and opportunities
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How to cope with uncertainty monsters in flood risk management?
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A call for a fundamental shift from model-centric to data-centric approaches in hydroinformatics
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Water quality management in aquaculture
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Review of water–energy–food nexus applications in the Global South
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