TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marzluff,John M.
TI  - Urban ecology: an international perspective on the interaction between humans and nature 
SN  - 9780387734118 (hbk.)
AV  - HT241 .U7242 2008
U1  - 307.76 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - City planning
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Écologie urbaine
KW  - Urbanisme
KW  - Aspect de l'environnement
KW  - Développement durable
KW  - Stadtökologie
KW  - swd
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Human domination of earth's ecosystems; Peter M. Vitousek ... [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.]
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