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The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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