| Description |
1 online resource (1177 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Contributors -- Prologue -- UK Urban Ecology Forum -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Part I Urban ecology: the field of study, its growth and present concerns -- 1 Urban areas and urban ecology -- Is 'urban' in the eye of the beholder? -- How is 'urban' defined? -- Effects of urbanization on biota and ecosystem services -- Research needs -- Does this matter? -- References -- 2 Urban ecology in the ancient tropics: Foodways and urban forms -- Introduction |
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The Indian subcontinent -- Southeast Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The Maya lowlands -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Twentieth-century growth of urban ecology -- Introduction: eight events that influenced the development of urban ecology -- Event 1: The emergence of urban natural history -- Urban ecology and social ecology in the 1920s -- Public demonstrations for access to nature in the 1930s -- Event 2: The impact of World War II on urban ecology -- Event 3: Industrial dereliction and the emergence of urban ecology as a distinct discipline -- Event 4: Growth of global environmental concern |
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Event 5: Urban ecology in integrated thinking about cities -- Event 6: Rapid growth of urban nature conservation in the 1980s -- Event 7: The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 -- Event 8: The urban ecology boom of the 1990s: an expansion of theory and empirical knowledge -- Human ecosystem models -- Parks and greenspace policies in Korea and Japan -- Final comments -- References -- 4 Urban ecology: Its boom in the first two decades of the twenty-first century -- Introduction -- Key issues -- Climate change -- People and nature -- Ecological solutions -- Urban nature conservation |
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New approaches in urban ecology -- Recent developments -- References -- Part II Humans as an integral component of urban ecosystems -- 5 A transdisciplinary urban ecology approach to complex urban systems -- Cities in the hot seat -- Cities as complex adaptive systems -- Evolving conceptualizations of urban ecology -- Ecology in cities -- Ecology of cities -- Ecology for and with cities -- From social-ecological to social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) -- Advancing urban systems science in urban ecology -- The rise of 'big data' -- New tools for urban complexity research |
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Ethics and governance of big data -- Participatory planning and urban futures -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Science is not enough: Grassroots and bottom-up action in urban ecology -- Mapping stewardship organizations -- Urban Food Farmers, São Paulo -- People lead, governments follow: Mumbai's Bandra Beach -- A movement for water, rivers, and streets, São Paulo -- Biophilia among children in Bogotá -- EcoBarrios (eco-neighborhoods) -- Public space activism -- Conclusions: the urban landscape is a co-creation of many -- References |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anderson, P. M. L
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Goode, David
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Houck, Mike
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Maddox, David
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Nagendra, Harini
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Tan, Puay Yok
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| ISBN |
9780429015267 |
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0429015267 |
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