Urban Ecology (eBook, PDF)

Strategies for Green Infrastructure and Land Use
Redaktion: Etingoff, Kimberly

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. With increasing global urbanization, the environments and ecologies of cities are often perceived to suffer. While pollution and destruction of green space and species may occur, cities also remain part of natural systems. Cities provide natural processes necessary for survival for humans and ot

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771882828
• Artikelnr.: 43588995

Autorenporträt

Kim Etingoff has a master's degree in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts University. Her recent experience includes researching a report on food resiliency within the city of Boston with Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. She worked in partnership with Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Alternatives for Community and Environment to support a community food-planning process based in a Boston neighborhood, which was oriented toward creating a vehicle for community action around urban food issues, providing extensive background research to ground the resident-led planning process. She has worked in the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, and has also coordinated and developed programs in urban agriculture and nutrition education. In addition, she has many years of experience researching, writing, and editing educational and academic books on environmental and food issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part 1: Ecosystem Services; Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services; Erik Andersson
Stephan Barthel
Sara Borgström
Johan Colding
Thomas Elmqvist
Carl Folke
and Åsa Gren; Exploring the Gap between Ecosystem Service Research and Management in Development Planning; Nadia Sitas
Heidi E. Prozesky
Karen J. Esler
and Belinda Reyers; Spatial Heterogeneity of Urban Soils: The Case of the Beijing Metropolitan Region
China; Qizheng Mao
Ganlin Huang
Alexander Buyantuev
Jianguo Wu
Shanghua Luo
and Keming Ma; Realizing the ecosystem-service value of native woodland in Ireland; Craig Bullock
Jerry Hawe
and Declan Little; Global Drivers and Tradeoffs of Three Urban Vegetation Ecosystem Services; Cynnamon Dobbs
Craig R. Nitschke
and Dave Kendal; Part 2: Green Space; Vegetation in Bangalore's Slums: Boosting Livelihoods
Well-Being and Social Capital; Divya Gopal and Harini Nagendra; Urban Green Spaces and an Integrative Approach to Sustainable Environment; Shah Md. Atiqul Haq; Part 3: Biodiversity; Urbanization Affects Plant Flowering Phenology and Pollinator Community: Effects of Water Availability and Land Cover; Kaesha Neil
Jianguo Wu
Christofer Bang
and Stanley Faeth; A Landscape Ecology Approach Identifies Important Drivers of Urban Biodiversity; Tabea Turrini and Eva Knop; Lessons Learned from Chicago Wilderness-Implementing and Sustaining Conservation Management in an Urban Setting; Liam Heneghan
Christopher Mulvaney
Kristen Ross
Lauren Umek
Cristy Watkins
Lynne M. Westphal
and David H. Wise; Part 4: Planning Tools for Enhancing Urban Ecology; Multifunctional Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Land Use Planning in the United States; Sarah Taylor Lovell; A Conceptual List of Indicators for Urban Planning and Management Based on Earth Observation; Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Christian Feigenwinter
Dimitrios Triantakonstantis
Igor Penyevskiy
Abraham Tal
Eberhard Parlow
Guy Fleishman
Sebnem Düzgün
Thomas Esch
and Mattia Marconcini; Landscape Architecture and Novel Ecosystems: Ecological Restoration in an Expanded Field; Catharina Sack; Index