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Balogh, Stephen B.

Understanding urban ecologyan interdisciplinary systems approach /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding urban ecologyedited by Myrna H. P. Hall, Stephen B. Balogh.
Reminder of title:	an interdisciplinary systems approach /
other author:	Hall, Myrna H. P.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	xxii, 360 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Urban ecology (Biology)
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11259-2
ISBN:	9783030112592$q(electronic bk.)

Understanding urban ecologyan interdisciplinary systems approach /
Understanding urban ecologyan interdisciplinary systems approach /[electronic resource] :edited by Myrna H. P. Hall, Stephen B. Balogh. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - xxii, 360 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

Preface. 1. What Is Urban Ecology and Why Should We Study It? -- 2. Urban Ecology from a Biophysical and Systems Perspective -- 3. Social Processes, Urban Ecosystems and Sustainability -- 4. Scale and Metabolism in Ancient Cities -- 5. Economy and Development in Modern Cities -- 6. The Urban Hydrological System -- 7. The Climate System -- 8. The Atmospheric System: Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases -- 9. Nutrient Biogeochemistry of Urban Systems -- 10. Material Cycles -- 11. The Biological System: Plants in the Urban Environment -- 12. The Biological System: Urban Wildlife, Adaptation and Evolution; Urbanization as a Driver of Contemporary Evolution in Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) -- 13. Environmental Justice in the Urban Environment -- 14. Urban Food Systems -- 15. 15. Urban Design Toward More Holistic Systems: Improving Discipline Integration and Sustainability Evaluation -- 16. The Epilogue.

Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach introduces students at the college undergraduate level, or those in advanced-standing college credit high school courses, to cities as ecosystems. For graduate students it provides an overview and rich literature base. Urban planners, educators, and decision makers can use this book to help in designing a more sustainable or "green" future. The authors use a systems approach to explore the complexity and interactions of different components of a city's ecology with an emphasis on the energy and materials required to maintain such concentrated centers of human activity and consumption. The book is written by seventeen specialized contributors and includes ten accompanying detailed field exercises to promote hands-on experience, observation, and quantification of urban ecosystem structure and function. The chapters describe one by one the different subsystems of the urban environment, their individual components and functions, and the interactions among them that create the social-ecological environments in which we live. The book's emphasis on social-ecological metabolism provides students with the knowledge and methods needed to evaluate proposed policies for urban sustainability in terms of ecosystem capacity, potential positive and negative feedbacks, the laws of thermo-dynamics, and socio-cultural perception and adaptability.

ISBN: 9783030112592$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-11259-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

275420
Urban ecology (Biology)

LC Class. No.: QH541.5.C6

Dewey Class. No.: 577.56

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