The Routledge handbook of urban ecology

Introduction / Ian Douglas

Urban ecology: definitions and goals / N.E. McIntyre

The analysis of cities as ecosystems / Ian Douglas

Urban ecology and industrial ecology / Xuemei Bai and Heinz Schandl

Urban areas in the context of human ecology / Roderick J. Lawrence

In livable cities is preservation of the wild: the politics of providing for nature in cities / Michael C. Houck

The human relationship with nature: rights of animals and plants in the urban context / Jason Byrne

Urban natural histories to urban ecologies: the growth of the study of urban nature / Ian Douglas and David Goode

Planning for nature in towns and cities: a historical perspective / David Goode

How much is urban nature worth? And for whom? Thoughts from ecological economics / Anna Chiesura and Joan Martínez-Alier

Introduction / Ian Douglas

Climate of cities / C.S.B. Grimmond

Urban heat islands / T.R. Oke

Urban effects on precipitation and associated convective processes / J.M. Shephard ... [et al.]

Urban hydrology / Ian Douglas

Urban geomorphology / Ian Douglas

Urban soils / Peter J. Marcotullio

The process of natural succession in urban areas / Wayne C. Zipperer

Recombinant ecology of urban areas: characterisation, context and creativity / Colin D. Meurk

Creative conservation / Grant Luscombe and Richard Scott

Introduction / Ian Douglas

Walls and paved surfaces: urban complexes with limited water and nutrients / C. Philip Wheater

Urban cliffs / Jeremy Lundholm

Suburban mosaic of houses, roads, gardens and mature trees / Ian Douglas

Urban wildlife corridors: conduits for movement or linear habitat? / Ian Douglas and Jonathan P. Sadler

Landscapes parks and open spaces / M. Hermy

Grassland on reclaimed soil, with streets, car parks and buildings but few or no mature trees / Tony Kendle

Urban contaminated land / Michael O. Rivett, Jonathan P. Sadler and Bob C. Barnes

Urban woodlands as distinctive and threatened nature-in-city patches / C.Y. Jim

Wetlands in urban environments / Joan G. Ehrenfeld, Monica Palta and Emilie Stander

Urban animal ecology / Peter J. Jarvis

Feral animals in the urban environment / Peter J. Jarvis

Introduction / Ian Douglas

Intrinsic and aesthetic values of urban nature: a journalist's view from London / David Nicholson-Lord

Intrinsic and aesthetic values of urban nature: a psychological perspective / Rachel Kaplan

Urban nature and human physical health / Jenna H. Tilt

Urban nature: human psychological and community health / Rod Matsuoka and William Sullivan

Street trees and the urban environment / Gerald F.M. Dawe

Urban gardens and biodiversity / Kevin J. Gaston and Sian Gaston

Introduction / Ian Douglas

Urban habitat analysis / Ian Douglas

Urban habitat type mapping / Peter J. Jarvis

Invasive species and their response to climate change / Ian Douglas

Urban biogeochemical flux analysis / Nancy B. Grimm ... [et al.]

Urban metabolism analysis / Shu-Li Huang and Chun-Lin Lee

Introduction / Ian Douglas

Delivering urban greenspace for people and wildlife / John Box

Urban areas and the biosphere reserve concept / Pete Frost and Glen Hyman

Urban ecology and sustainable urban drainage / Peter Worrall and Sarah Little

Green roofs, urban vegetation and urban runoff / Joachim T. Tourbier

The role of green infrastructure in adapting cities to climate change / Ian Douglas

Creative use of therapeutic green spaces / Ambra Burls

Peri-urban ecology: green infrastructure in the twenty-first century metro-scape / Joe Ravetz

Biodiversity as a statutory component of urban planning / David Goode

Making urban ecology a key element in urban development and planning / John Stuart-Murray

Towards ecopolis: new technologies, new philosophies and new developments / Rusong Wang, Paul Downton and Ian Douglas.