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Title:
Urban ecology : an international perspective on the interaction between humans and nature / [edited by] John M. Marzluff ... [et al.].
Publisher:
Springer,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
xxv, 807 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Subject:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Écologie urbaine.
Urbanisme--Aspect de l'environnement.
Développement durable.
Other Authors:
Marzluff, John M.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Beyond greenbelts and zoning : a new planning concept for the environment of Asian mega-cities / Makoto Yokohari ... [et al.]. Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force / Stephen R. Palumbi -- Urbanization / Brian J. L. Berry -- Urban ecology as an interdisciplinary field : differences in the use of "urban" between the social and natural sciences / Nancy E. McIntyre, K. Knowles-Yánez, and D. Hope -- Growth of the city : an introduction to a research project / Ernest W. Burgess -- On the early history of urban ecology in Europe / Herbert Sukopp -- Urban ecological systems : terrestrial ecological, physical, and socioeconomic components of metropolitan areas / S. T. A. Pickett ... [et al.] -- Integrated approaches to long-term studies of urban ecological systems / Nancy B. Grimm ... [et al.] -- Integrating humans into ecology : opportunities and challenges for studying urban ecosystems / Marina Alberti ... [et al.] -- Sealing of soils / Gerd Wessolek -- Producing and consuming chemicals : the moral economy of the American lawn / Paul Robbins, Julie T. Sharp -- Streams in the urban landscape / Michael J. Paul and Judy L. Meyer -- Urban climate-- basic and applied aspects / Wilhelm Kuttler -- Global warming and the urban heat island / Maria João Alcoforado and Henrique Andrade -- Retrospective assessment of morality from the London smog episode of 1952 : the role of influenza and pollution / Micheile L. Bell, Devra L. Davis, and Tony Fletcher -- Heat waves, urban climate and human health / Wilfried Endlicher ... [et al.] -- City as a subject for ecological research / Herbert Sukopp -- Ecosystem processes along an urban-to-rural gradient / Mark J. McDonnell ... [et al.] -- House sparrows : rapid evolution of races in North America / Richard F. Johnston, Robert K. Selander -- On the role of alien species in urban flora and vegetation / Ingo Kowarik -- Socioeconomics drive urban plant diversity / Diane Hope ... [et al.] -- Fauna of the big city-- estimating species richness and abundance in Warsaw, Poland / Maciej Luniak -- Island biogeography for an urbanizing world : how extinction and colonization may determine biological diversity in human-dominated landscapes / John M. Marzluff -- Long-term survey of the avifauna in an urban park / Michael Abs and Frank Bergen -- Biodiversity in the Argentinean Rolling Pampa ecoregion : changes caused by agriculture and urbanisation / Ana M. Faggi ... [et al.] -- Does differential access to protein influence differences in timing of breeding of Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) in suburban and wildland habitats? / Stephan J. Schoech and Reed Bowman -- Creating a homogeneous avifauna / Robert B. Blair -- Towards a mechanistic understanding of urbanization's impact on fish / Christian Wolter -- Bat activity in an urban landscape : patterns at the landscape and microhabitat scale / Stanley D. Gehrt and James E. Chelsvig -- Urbanization and spider diversity : influences of human modification of habitat structure and productivity / E. Shochat ... [et al.] -- Social science concepts and frameworks for understanding urban ecosystems / Carolyn Harrison and Jacquie Burgess -- Iceberg and the Titanic : human economic behavior in ecological models / Jane V. Hall -- Forecasting demand for urban land / Paul Waddell and Terry Moore -- Characteristics, causes, and effects of sprawl : a literature review / Reid H. Ewing -- Urban ecological footprints : why cities cannot be sustainable-- and why they are a key to sustainability / William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel -- Health, supportive environments, and the reasonable person model / Stephen Kaplan, Rachel Kaplan -- Relationship between urban sprawl and physical activity, obesity, and morbidity / Reid Ewing ... [et al.] -- Megacities as global risk areas / Frauke Kraas -- Why is understanding urban ecosystems important to people concerned about environmental justice? / Bunyan Bryant and John Callewaert -- Struggle to govern the commons / Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom, Paul C. Stern -- Modeling the urban ecosystem : a conceptual framework / M. Alberti -- Scientific, institutional, and individual constraints on restoring Puget Sound rivers / Clare M. Ryan and Sara M. Jensen -- Toward ecosystem management : shifts in the core and the context of urban forest ecology / Rowan A. Rowntree -- What is the form of a city, and how is it made? / Kevin A. Lynch -- What should an ideal city look like from an ecological view? : ecological demands on the future city / Ruediger Wittig ... [et al.] -- Land use planning and wildlife maintenance : guidelines for conserving wildlife in an urban landscape / Michael E. Soulé -- Terrestrial nature reserve design at the urban/rural interface / Craig L. Shafer -- Restoration of fragmented landscapes for the conservation of birds : a general framework and specific recommendations for urbanizing landscapes / John M. Marzluff, Kern Ewing -- Steps involved in designing conservation subdivisions : a straightforward approach / Randall G. Arendt -- Beyond greenbelts and zoning : a new planning concept for the environment of Asian mega-cities / Makoto Yokohari ... [et al.].
ISBN:
0387734112 (hbk.)
9780387734118 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)166358056
LCCN:
2007929538
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

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