Ecosystem services provide considerable development opportunities, including incorporating land use planning and enhancing climate change resilience in peri-urban communities. However, the application of this concept in planning and enhancing climate change resilience is negligible in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This article reviews state-of-the-art research on the potential contribution of peri-urban ecosystem services to climate change resilience in SSA and identifies research gaps for further work. This study was conducted through systematic review of articles from the Web of Science. The literature shows limited knowledge on peri-urban ecosystem services research globally and SSA in particular. The gaps in this knowledge stem from inadequate conceptualization and lack of understanding about how such knowledge can be translated into policy, planning and management and, hence, realizing development goals. In nutshell, the potential for climate change resilience of well-managed peri-urban ecosystem services includes reducing the physical exposure of peri-urban areas to floods and droughts and minimizing climate change risks through increased socio-economic resilience to hazard impacts and provision of the carbon sequestration function. However, specific peri-urban studies describing ecosystem service types and how they can be synchronized into mainstream urban planning and climate change resilience strategies are lacking in most SSA urban regions/landscapes. Therefore, case studies need to be conducted to contextualize and downscale the concept in peri-urban areas and to determine how the concept can be synchronized into broad urban planning and strategies for enhancing resilience to climate change in vulnerable urban and peri-urban communities.

中文翻译：

---

撒哈拉以南非洲郊区地区的生态系统服务潜力对气候变化的抵御能力

生态系统服务提供了可观的发展机会，包括纳入土地使用计划并增强城市周边社区的气候变化适应力。但是，在撒哈拉以南非洲地区（SSA）中，在规划和增强气候变化适应力方面应用此概念是微不足道的。本文回顾了有关城市周边生态系统服务对SSA中气候变化弹性的潜在贡献的最新研究，并指出了需要进一步研究的研究空白。这项研究是通过对Web of Science的文章进行系统回顾来进行的。文献表明，在全球范围内，特别是在SSA方面，对郊区生态系统服务研究的知识有限。这种知识的不足是由于概念化不足以及对如何将此类知识转化为政策缺乏了解，规划和管理，从而实现发展目标。简而言之，管理得当的城市周边生态系统服务对气候变化的复原力的潜力包括减少城市周边地区遭受洪水和干旱的物理暴露，并通过提高社会经济对灾害影响的适应力和提供应对气候变化的能力来最大程度地减少气候变化风险碳固存功能。但是，在大多数撒哈拉以南非洲地区，缺乏关于生态系统服务类型及其如何与主流城市规划和气候变化适应力策略同步的具体郊区研究。因此，