Urban Ecology: Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems

Urban Ecology: Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems covers the latest theoretical and applied concepts in urban ecological research. This book covers the key environmental issues of urban ecosystems as well as the human centric issues, particularly those of governance, economics, sociology, and human health. The goal of Urban Ecology is to challenge readers' thinking around urban ecology from a resource-based approach to a holistic and applied field for sustainable development. There are six major themes of the book: emerging urban concepts and urbanization, land use land cover change, urban social ecological systems, urban environment, urban economics and sustainable cities. Within each section, key concepts such as monitoring the urbanization phenomena, land use cover, urbanization affecting rural ecology, urban soil fluxes, urban sprawl, and human health, and sustainable cities are covered. Urban Ecology serves as a comprehensive and advanced book for students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers in urban ecology and urban environmental research, planning, and practice. Includes global case studies from over fourteen countries providing a first-hand account of recent applicationsCovers the phenomena of ex-situ resource mobilization for urban growth due to trade and globalizationExamines the environmental issues as well as social-ecological systems and governance INDICE: Theme 1: Emerging facets of urban ecology - urban and urbanization, theory and concepts 1. Urban ecology - Current state of research and concepts 2. Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers, and the research agenda ahead Theme 2: Urban Land Use Land Cover 3. Urban growth pattern detection and analysis 4. Exposition of spatial urban growth pattern and its effects on surface temperature Theme 3: Social ecological systems 5. Socio-economic stressors of disasters on urban ecology in India 6. Ecological economics of an urban settlement: an overview 7. Urban greenspace, social equity and human well-being Theme 4: Urban Environment 8. Urbanization, urban agriculture and food security 9. Carbon reduction strategies for the built environment in a tropical city 10. Trends in active and sustainable mobility: a comparison between cycling cultures of Dhaka and Innsbruck 11. Air quality and its impact on urban Environment 12. Sustainable water management in megacities of the future 13. Comparing invasive alien plant community composition between urban, peri-urban and rural areas; the City of Cape Town as a case study Theme 5: Anthropological material balance 14. Types, sources and management of urban wastes 15. Nutrient recovery from the municipal waste stream: Status and prospects Theme 6: Cities: Healthy, smart and sustainable 16. Urban ecology and human health: Implications of urban heat island, air pollution and climate change nexus 17. Sustainable cities - monitoring and management 18. Challenges in assessing urban sustainability Theme 7: Sustainable urban design 19. Towards Sustainable Urban Redevelopment: Urban Design Informed by Morphological Patterns and Ecologies of Informal Settlements in Cities 20. Assessing the role of urban design in a rapidly urbanizing historical city and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India 21. Green building movement in Urban India 22. Critical assessment, challenges and future dimensions for the urban ecological systems 23. Challenges and innovations of transportation and collection of waste 24. Soil Carbon Efflux in Urban Ecosystems

• ISBN: 978-0-12-820730-7
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 532
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés