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Urban Ecology

Urban Ecology


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Urbanization and Human Domination of Earth.- Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems.- Humans as the World's Greatest Evolutionary Force.- Urbanization.- Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Field: Differences in the use of "Urban" Between the Social and Natural Sciences.- Conceptual Foundations of Urban Ecology.- The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project.- On the Early History of Urban Ecology in Europe.- Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas.- Integrated Approaches to Long-Term Studies of Urban Ecological Systems.- Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems.- The Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Pedosphere.- Sealing of Soils.- Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn.- Streams in the Urban Landscape.- The Urban Climate - Basic and Applied Aspects.- Global Warming and the Urban Heat Island.- A Retrospective Assessment of Mortality from the London Smog Episode of 1952: The Role of Influenza and Pollution.- Heat Waves, Urban Climate and Human Health.- The Biosphere.- The City as a Subject for Ecological Research.- Ecosystem Processes Along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient.- House Sparrows Rapid Evolution of Races in North America.- On the Role of Alien Species in Urban Flora and Vegetation.- Socioeconomics Drive Urban Plant Diversity.- Fauna of the Big City - Estimating Species Richness and Abundance in Warsaw Poland.- Island Biogeography for an Urbanizing World How Extinction and Colonization May Determine Biological Diversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes.- A Long Term Survey of the Avifauna in an Urban Park.- Biodiversity in the Argentinean Rolling Pampa Ecoregion: Changes Caused by Agriculture and Urbanisation.- Does Differential Access to Protein Influence Differences in Timing of Breeding of Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) in Suburban and Wildland Habitats?.- Creating a Homogeneous Avifauna.- Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Urbanization's Impacts on Fish.- Bat Activity in an Urban Landscape: Patterns at the Landscape and Microhabitat Scale.- Urbanization and Spider Diversity: Influences of Human Modification of Habitat Structure and Productivity.- The Anthroposphere: Human Dimensions.- Social Science Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding Urban Ecosystems.- The Iceberg and the Titanic: Human Economic Behavior in Ecological Models.- Forecasting Demand for Urban Land.- Characteristics, Causes, and Effects of Sprawl: A Literature Review.- Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot be Sustainable-and Why They are a Key to Sustainability.- Health, Supportive Environments, and the Reasonable Person Model.- Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity.- Megacities as Global Risk Areas.- Why Is Understanding Urban Ecosystems Important to People Concerned About Environmental Justice?.- The Anthroposphere: Planning and Policy.- The Struggle to Govern the Commons.- Modeling the Urban Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework.- Scientific, Institutional, and Individual Constraints on Restoring Puget Sound Rivers.- Toward Ecosystem Management: Shifts in the Core and the Context of Urban Forest Ecology.- What Is the Form of a City, and How Is It Made?.- What Should an Ideal City Look Like from an Ecological View? - Ecological Demands on the Future City.- Land Use Planning and Wildlife Maintenance.- Terrestrial Nature Reserve Design at the Urban/Rural Interface.- Restoration of Fragmented Landscapes for the Conservation of Birds: A General Framework and Specific Recommendations for Urbanizing Landscapes.- Steps Involved in Designing Conservation Subdivisions: A Straightforward Approach.- Beyond Greenbelts and Zoning: A New Planning Concept for the Environment of Asian Mega-Cities.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781489977632
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 808
  • Spine Width: 42 mm
  • Weight: 1472 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1489977635
  • Publisher Date: 23 Aug 2016
  • Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2008
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature
  • Width: 178 mm


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