Urban ecology : emerging patterns and social-ecological systems /

Urban Ecology covers the latest theoretical and applied concepts in urban ecological research. This book covers the key environmental issues of urban ecosystems as well as the human-centric issues, particularly those of governance, economics, sociology and human health. The goal of Urban Ecology is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Verma, Pramit (Editor ), Singh, Pardeep (Editor ), Raghubanshi, A. S. (Editor ), Singh, Rishikesh (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Oxford ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, [2020]
Temas:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
�Ecologie urbaine.
urban environments.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Urban Ecology
  • URBAN ECOLOGY: EMERGING PATTERNS AND SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • References
  • List of reviewers
  • I
  • Emerging facets of urban ecology eurban and urbanization, theory and concepts
  • 1
  • Urban ecology
  • current state of research and concepts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 What is urban ecology?
  • 1.2 Social-ecological systems and urban metabolism
  • 2. State of research in urban ecology
  • 2.1 Global trends in the past twodecades (1999-2019)
  • 2.2 Country-wise division of urban ecology research (from 2009 to 2019)
  • 3. Urban ecology: concepts and definitions
  • 3.1 The urban boundary
  • 3.2 Urban metabolism
  • 3.3 Land use land cover change
  • 3.4 Modelling and remote sensing
  • 3.5 Disaster risk reduction
  • 3.6 Economies of scale
  • 3.7 Urban ecological footprint
  • 3.8 Urban sustainability indicators
  • 3.9 Smart city
  • 3.10 Sustainable city
  • 3.11 Human health
  • 3.12 Integrated approach
  • 3.13 Governance and planning
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
  • Further reading
  • 2
  • Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers, and the research agenda ahead
  • 1. Urban metabolism: from concept to methods
  • 1.1 One concept, a variety of methods
  • 1.2 A variety of practical applications and end-users
  • 2. Challenges and new frontiers for urban metabolism research
  • 2.1 Understanding distinct conceptual underpinnings and common methods across ecological sciences
  • 2.2 Expressing interdependency between biogeochemical cycles and socioeconomic flows of the urban metabolism
  • 2.3 Linking urban metabolism research with design: systematizing the growing evidence-base on nature-based solutions
  • 3. Conclusions: a tentative research agenda
  • References
  • II
  • Urban land use land cover
  • 3
  • Urban growth pattern detection and analysis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Satellite image selection
  • 3. Preprocessing of satellite imagery
  • 4. Image classification methods
  • 5. Optimization of postclassification processing
  • 6. Accuracy assessment of the classification
  • 7. Urbanization detection based on the image time-series
  • 8. Results and analysis
  • 9. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
  • 4
  • Exposition of spatial urban growth pattern using PSO-SLEUTH and identifying its effects on surface temperature
  • 1. Background
  • 2. Study area
  • 3. Method
  • 3.1 Data acquisition
  • 3.2 Extraction of features
  • 3.3 Preprocessing
  • 3.4 Land-use analysis: Gaussian maximum likelihood classifier
  • 3.5 Land surface temperature: single window algorithm
  • 3.6 Landscape modelling and prediction: PSO-SLEUTH
  • 4. Results and discussion
  • 4.1 Land-use analysis
  • 4.2 Land surface temperature
  • 4.3 Landscape modelling and prediction
  • 5. Conclusion

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