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Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design: Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities

This book unites the ideas data and insights of ecologists and other scientists with those of urban designers creating a dialog that helps to promote urban resilience. Offers strategies aimed at making today s urban environments more resilient. more

Lively Cities : Reconfiguring Urban Ecology (Paperback)

A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the... more

Pre-Owned Urban Ecologies: City Space Material Agency and Environmental Politics in Contemporary (Hardcover 9780739195758) by Christopher Schliephake

9780739195758. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Ecocritical Theory and Practice. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. The term urban ecology has become a buzzword in various disciplines including the social and... more

Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems (Hardcover)

A novel integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. In Introduction to... more

Pre-Owned Geographies of City Science: Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin (Hardcover) by Tanya O Sullivan

9780822945758. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 242. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 242 p. Contains: Illustrations. Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century was both the... more

Routledge Research in Landscape and Envi Waste and Urban Regeneration: An Urban Ecology of Seoul s Nanjido Post-Landfill Park (Hardcover)

Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park and its relation to the urban ecology within the context of the city s urban development during the late twentieth and... more

Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu (Paperback - Used) 0822350807 9780822350804

A major contribution to the nascent anthropology of urban environments Reigning the River illuminates the complexities of river restoration in Kathmandu Nepal s capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in South Asia. In this rich ethnography Anne... more

The Ecology of Urban Habitats (Paperback)

This book is about the plants and animals of urban areas not the urban fringe not encapsulated countryside but those parts of towns where man s impact is greatest. The powerful anthropogenic influences that operate in cities have until recently... more

Urban Ecology P (Paperback)

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns proceeds sustainably. Urban ecology the interdisciplinary study of... more

Springer Environmental Management: Ecology Planning and Management of Urban Forests: International Perspective (Paperback)

It has been increasingly recognized that trees and vegetation in urban areas provide a number of ecological services beyond beautifying cities. This book takes an international approach to sharing knowledge about the management of urban forests that... more

Advances in Spatial Science: Sustainable Cities and Energy Policies (Hardcover)

The aim of this book is to highlight the great potential of decentralized (i.e. local or urban) energy policies in achieving environmentally-benign developments for modern cities. Urban sustainability is placed in the context of the debate on global... more

The City and Its Sciences (Paperback)

Recent developments in the field of urban analysis and management are investigated in this book. It is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the subject drawn from a long-term project and seminar held in Italy to review the state of the art and... more

NATO Science Series: IV:: Urban Groundwater Management and Sustainability (Hardcover)

Given that around 50% of the world s population live in cities and that urban populations are expanding rapidly the issues are important and becoming increasingly urgent. To reduce the effects of such impacts management is required irrespective of... more

Routledge Advances in Regional Economics Explorations in Urban and Regional Dynamics: A Case Study in Complexity Science (Paperback)

The task of modelling the evolution of cities - the dynamics - is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualisation... more

Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements: Greening Cities: Forms and Functions (Paperback)

This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture geography urban ecology urban climatology biodiversity conservation urban... more

Proceedings in Life Sciences: Evolution and Genetics in Life Histories (Paperback)

This volume is the result of a symposium entitled Variation in Life Histories: Genetics and Evolutionary Processes sponsored by the Program in Evolutionary Ecology and Behavior of the University of Iowa and held in Iowa City on October 13 and 14 1980.... more

Human Sustainable Cities: Towards the Sdgs and Green Just Smart and Inclusive Transitions (Hardcover)

Chapter1. A Planet of Cities at Times unlike Any Other: Towards the 2030 SustainableDevelopment Agenda.- Chapter2. Urban Ecology and Humanism: Pathways to Regeneration.- Chapter3. Climate-Conscious Cities: The Critical Decade.- Chapter4. The Energy... more

The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (Hardcover)

Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and... more