The City is an Ecosystem (eBook, ePUB)

Sustainable Education, Policy, and Practice
Redaktion: Mutnick, Deborah; Shuttleworth, Jay M.; Leslie, Timothy; Griffiths, Carole; Cuonzo, Margaret

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time-climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality-which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world's population currently live.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000622966
• Artikelnr.: 64177025

Autorenporträt

Deborah Mutnick is Professor of English at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, USA. Margaret Cuonzo is Professor of Philosophy at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, USA. Carole Griffiths is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus and Research Associate in Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, USA. Timothy Leslie is an Associate Professor of Biology at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, USA. Jay M. Shuttleworth is Assistant Professor of Social Studies at City University of New York, Queens College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction PART I: The City as Ecosystem 2. Ecology and Technological
Enframement: Cities, Networks, and the COVID-19 Pandemic 3. Social
Determinants of Health as a Framework for Addressing Urban Climate
Adaptation 4. Climate Change Policy: Lessons from Classical Rome 5.
Greenspace in Small Cities: Opportunities for Sustainability Education 6.
The Birds and Bees of Urban Biodiversity: Patterns, Problems, and a Path
Forward 7. Action Research in a Tokyo Suburb: Building Community Ties
through Collaborative Landscaping Projects 8. Community Design for
Inclusive Engagement: The Old Stone House and Washington Park, Brooklyn
PART II: The Right to the City 9. The Right to the City and Rights of the
City 10. Making Our Own History: Urban Sustainability in a World in Crisis
11. Reconceptualizing the City in the Age of the Anthropocene 12.
Industrial Gentrification and the Geography of Sacrifice and Gain 13.
Futurity and Equity in Local Climate Action 14. Social Justice and Brooklyn
Development: 500 Years of Struggle 15. Participatory Action Research in Rio
de Janeiro's Sustainable Favela Network: From Self-Sufficiency and
International Collaboration to Participatory Regenerative Infrastructures
PART III: The City as Classroom 16. Teaching about Sustainable Living in
Urban Settings: Global Citizenship and Overcoming the Arcadia Myth 17. An
Environmental Justice Lens on Indianapolis' Urban Ecosystem: Collaborative
Community Curation 18. Urban Rewilding Through a Modified Placemaking Lens:
A Teaching and Learning Journey 19. Using the Prepositional Framework for
Urban Environmental Education: Teaching and Learning about the Ecology in,
of, for and with Cities 20. Manitoba Hydro's Mega-Dams and the Ethical
Teaching of Ceramics and Sustainability 21. Resilience for Sustainability
Everywhere: Critical Literacy for Students and Everyone Else 22. Afterword:
Transdisciplinary Urban Ecosystem Research, Education and Stewardship