ISBN:
9780429015267
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (1177 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
577.56
Keywords:
Urban ecology (Sociology)-Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- New approaches in urban ecology -- Recent developments -- References.
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