Saehoon Kim

How Connected is Connected?

Rapid Urbanization, Fragmented Landscape Patches, and Urban Ecology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The ecological value of urban landscape patches includes serving not only as major habitats for species, but also as stepping stones for animal dispersal, for enabling recolonization based on the metapopulation theory, for mitigating air pollution through dry deposit, and for controlling microclimate. Nonetheless, the removal, shrinkage, degradation, and fragmentation of patches has been common during the rapid urbanization of East Asian cities. This book provides a GIS-based simulation method in analyzing the spatial patterns of landscape patches, and discusses its ecological implications in two case-study cities Seoul and Tokyo s 23 Special Wards, based on the evaluative criteria such as bio-diversity, species movement, and air pollution mitigation. This book attempts to motivate general readers, students, as well as researchers, with critical interests in the spatial patterns of urban forms and its ecological implication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 161g
• ISBN-13: 9783838321189
• ISBN-10: 3838321189
• Artikelnr.: 27983093

Autorenporträt

Saehoon Kim is a doctoral student at Harvard University. His study focuses on the formation of urban agglomeration, ecological urbanism within the East Asian context, and environmental capacity of urban regions. Prior to the doctoral studies, he earned his MDesS degree at Harvard, and B.Arch. at Seoul National University.