Ecology of Cities and Towns (eBook, PDF)

A Comparative Approach
Redaktion: Mcdonnell, Mark J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The unprecedented growth of cities and towns around the world, coupled with the unknown effects of global change, has created an urgent need to increase ecological understanding of human settlements, in order to develop inhabitable, sustainable cities and towns in the future. Although there is a wealth of knowledge regarding the understanding of human organisation and behaviour, there is comparably little information available regarding the ecology of cities and towns. This book brings together leading scientists, landscape designers and planners from developed and developing countries around the world, to explore how urban ecological research has been undertaken to date, what has been learnt, where there are gaps in knowledge, and what the future challenges and opportunities are.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511577413
• Artikelnr.: 38216229

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: scope of the book and the need for developing a
comparative approach to the ecological study of cities and towns; Part I.
Opportunities and Challenges of Conducting Comparative Studies: 2.
Comparative urban ecology: challenges and possibilities; 3. Frameworks for
urban ecosystem studies: gradients, patch dynamics and the human ecosystem
in the New York metropolitan area and Baltimore, USA; 4. Comparative
effects of urbanisation in marine and terrestrial habitats; 5. Comparative
ecology of cities and towns: past, present and future; 6. Comparative urban
ecological research in developing countries; 7. Using models to compare the
ecology of cities; Part II. Ecological Studies of Cities and Towns; 8.
Responses of faunal assemblages to urbanisation: global research paradigms
and an avian case study; 9. Effect of urban structures on diversity of
marine species; 10. Comparative studies of terrestrial vertebrates in urban
areas; 11. The ecology of roads in urban and urbanising landscapes; 12.
Spatial pattern and process in urban animal communities; 13. Invertebrate
biodiversity in urban landscapes: assessing remnant habitat and its
restoration; 14. Arthropods in urban ecosystems: community patterns as
functions of anthropogenic land use; 15. Light pollution and the impact of
artificial night lighting on insects; 16. A comparison of vegetation cover
in Beijing and Shanghai: a remote sensing approach; 17. Vegetation
composition and structure of forest patches along urban-to-rural gradients;
18. Environmental, social and spatial determinants of urban arboreal
character in Auckland, New Zealand; 19. Carbon and nitrogen cycling in
soils of remnant forests along urban-rural gradients: case studies in the
New York metropolitan area and Louisville, Kentucky; 20. Investigative
approaches of urban biogeochemical cycles: New York metropolitan area and
Baltimore as case studies; Part III. Integrating Science with Management
and Planning: 21. Structural analysis of urban landscapes for landscape
management in German cities; 22. Preservation of original natural
vegetation in urban areas: an overview; 23. Homogeneity of urban biotopes
and similarity of landscape design language in former colonial cities; 24.
Tools to assess human impact on biotope resilience and biodiversity in
urban planning: examples from Stockholm, Sweden; 25. Landscape ecological
analysis and assessment in an urbanising environment; 26. Applying
landscape ecological principles to a fascinating landscape: the city; 27. A
trans-disciplinary research approach providing a platform for improved
urban design, quality of life and biodiverse urban ecosystems; 28. Pattern:
process metaphors for metropolitan landscapes; 29. Valuing urban wetlands:
modification, preservation and restoration; Part IV. Comments and
Synthesis: 30. What is the main object of urban ecology? Determining
demarcation using the example of research into urban flora; 31. How to
conduct comparative urban ecological research; 32. Ecological scientific
knowledge in urban and land-use planning; 33. Envisioning the comparative
possible: a critique; 34. Towards a comparative ecology of cities and
towns; 35. A comparative ecology of cities and towns: synthesis of
opportunities and limitations.