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The Routledge handbook of urban ecology
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Routledge
Publication Date
c2011
Language
English
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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.
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