EAN: 9783030112585

UNDERSTANDING URBAN ECOLOGY GEBUNDEN

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.

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