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As humans have come to dominate the earth, the ideal of studying and teaching ecology in pristine ecosystems has become impossible to achieve. Our planet is now a mosaic of ecosystems ranging from the relatively undisturbed to the completely built, with the majority of people living in urban environments. This accessible introduction to the principles of urban ecology provides students with the tools they need to understand these increasingly important urban ecosystems. It builds upon the themes of habitat modification and resource use to demonstrate how multiple ecological processes interact in cities and how human activity initiates chains of unpredictable unintended ecological consequences. Broad principles are supported throughout by detailed examples from around the world and a comprehensive list of readings from the primary literature. Questions, exercises and laboratories at the end of each chapter encourage discussion, hands-on study, active learning, and engagement with the world outside the classroom window.

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Ecologie urbaine

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Trees in cities --- Urban forestry --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Forest surveys

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For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation to certify their yard as a wildlife habitat, it felt like pushing back, in however small a way, against the tide of bad news about vanishing species, changing climate, dying coral reefs. Then the animals started to arrive, and Barilla soon discovered the complexities (and possible mayhem) of merging human with animal habitats. What are the limits of coexistence, he wondered? To find out, Barilla set out across continents to explore cities where populations of bears, monkeys, marmosets, and honeybees live alongside human residents. My Backyard Jungle brings these unique stories together, making Barilla's yard the centerpiece of a meditation on possibilities for coexistence with animals in an increasingly urban world. Not since Gerald Durrell penned My Family and Other Animals have readers encountered a naturalist with such a gift for storytelling and such an open heart toward all things wild.

Urban ecology (Biology) --- Habitat (Ecology) --- Animals and civilization. --- Civilization and animals --- Civilization --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal habitat --- Animal habitats --- Animals --- Habitats (Ecology) --- Wildlife habitat --- Wildlife habitats --- Ecology --- Cities and towns --- City ecology (Biology) --- Habitat --- Habitats --- Environmental aspects

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What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of Measuring Urban Design argue it's not an idle question. Inviting streets are the centerpiece of thriving, sustainable communities, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the precise design elements that make an area appealing. This accessible guide removes the mystery, providing clear methods to measure urban design.   In recent years, many "walking audit instruments" have been developed to measure qualities like building height, block length, and sidewalk width. But while easily quantifiable, these physical features do not fully capture the experience of walking down a street. In contrast, this book addresses broad perceptions of street environments. It provides operational definitions and measurement protocols of five intangible qualities of urban design, specifically imageability, visual enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity.   The result is a reliable field survey instrument grounded in constructs from architecture, urban design, and planning. Readers will also find a case study applying the instrument to 588 streets  in New York City, which shows that it can be used effectively to measure the built environment's impact on social, psychological, and physical well-being. Finally, readers will find illustrated, step-by-step instructions to use the instrument and a scoring sheet for easy calculation of urban design quality scores.   For the first time, researchers, designers, planners, and lay people have an empirically tested tool to measure those elusive qualities that make us want to take a stroll. Urban policymakers and planners as well as students in urban policy, design, and environmental health will find the tools and methods in Measuring Urban Design especially useful.

Architecture. --- Environmental Medicine. --- Environmental sciences. --- Regional planning. --- Urban ecology (Sociology). --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Environmental Health --- City planning --- Architecture --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Methodology --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Regional development --- Regional planning --- State planning --- Environmental science --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Environmental aspects --- Government policy --- Design and construction --- Environment. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Environmental health. --- Environmental Health. --- Urbanism. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Urban Ecology. --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- Landscape protection --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Health aspects --- Management --- Science --- Art --- Building --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban ecology (Biology)

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This survey of one the longest insect conservation campaigns in Australia deals with one of the most iconic endemic  papilionid butterflies, the Richmond birdwing (Ornithoptera richmondia), threatened by clearance and fragmentation of subtropical rainforest in eastern Australia and the spread of an alien and poisonous larval food-plant. It was thus lost from much of its former range during the twentieth century. Its conservation has involved many aspects of community involvement, developed over more than 20 years, and its recovery has focused on habitat restoration and weed eradication, in conjunction with conservation of remaining forest fragments. The work involved the entire historical range of the butterfly, and has emphasised landscape connectivity, enhanced through extensive plantings of native food plants. Interest has been maintained through extensive publicity, community education and media activity, and the programme has provided many lessons for advancing insect conservation practice in the region.  This summary of the extensive scientific and public aspects of this innovative insect conservation study, emphasises the many different factors that can influence community interest and practical outcomes.

Birdwing butterflies -- Australia. --- Birdwing butterflies -- Pictorial works. --- Birdwing butterflies. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Butterflies --- Conservation biology. --- Lepidoptera diurna --- Rhopalocera --- Life sciences. --- Ecology. --- Applied ecology. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Entomology. --- Life Sciences. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Applied Ecology. --- Urban Ecology. --- Nature conservation --- Insects --- Zoology --- Cities and towns --- City ecology (Biology) --- Environmental protection --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Environmental aspects --- Lepidoptera --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Ecology .