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How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, sewer systems, and industrial sites. The book presents models, patterns, and examples from hundreds of cities worldwide. Numerous illustrations enrich the presentation. Cities are analyzed, not as ecologically bad or good, but as places with concentrated rather than dispersed people. Urban ecology principles, traditionally adapted from natural-area ecology, now increasingly emerge from the distinctive features of cities. Spatial patterns and flows, linking organisms, built structures, and the physical environment highlight a treasure chest of useful principles. This pioneering interdisciplinary book opens up frontiers of insight, as a valuable source and text for undergraduates, graduates, researchers, professionals and others with a thirst for solutions to growing urban problems.

Urban ecology (Biology)

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How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, sewer systems, and industrial sites. The book presents models, patterns, and examples from hundreds of cities worldwide. Numerous illustrations enrich the presentation. Cities are analyzed, not as ecologically bad or good, but as places with concentrated rather than dispersed people. Urban ecology principles, traditionally adapted from natural-area ecology, now increasingly emerge from the distinctive features of cities. Spatial patterns and flows, linking organisms, built structures, and the physical environment highlight a treasure chest of useful principles. This pioneering interdisciplinary book opens up frontiers of insight, as a valuable source and text for undergraduates, graduates, researchers, professionals and others with a thirst for solutions to growing urban problems. -- Provided by publisher.

Urban ecology (Biology) --- City ecology (Biology) --- Cities and towns --- Ecology --- Environmental aspects

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Band 1 der Serie A, "Die Architektur und Stratigraphie", stellt den ersten Teil des Endberichtes der Ausgrabungen in der Zentralen Oberstadt von Tall Mozan/ Urkes in Nordost-Syrien dar. Die Forschungen der Universität Tübingen stellten eine ununterbrochene Siedlungsabfolge von der ersten Hälfte des 3. bis in die zweite Hälfte des 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr. fest. Die zentrale Terrasse aus Lehmziegel, auf der ein Tempelgebäude stand und die in ihrer Größe vergleichbar ist mit den Stufenpyramiden (Zikkuraten) des südlichen Mesopotamiens, sowie der freie zentrale Platz waren über den gesamten Zeitraum hinweg in kaum veränderter Weise in Benutzung. Zusammen mit der in der Unterstadt durch geomagnetische Prospektion und Oberflächenbegehungen beobachteten regelmäßigen hexagonalen Gesamtanlage verraten sie eine zentral gelenkte räumliche Organisation der damals als Urkes bekannten Stadtsiedlung. Das in der Oberstadt ergrabene Wohnviertel war in der Frühen Bronzezeit durch eine kleinteilige Bebauung gekennzeichnet, die einen sozial niedrigen Stand der Bewohnerschaft verrät. Am Ende des 3. Jahrtausends wurde neben den einfachen Wohnhäusern ein großes Gebäude errichtet, das als Wirtschaftsgebäude gedeutet werden kann. Zu Beginn des 2. Jahrtausends schließlich entstanden geräumigere und besser gebaute Wohnhäuser, die sich in der Ausrichtung und in der Größe gleichen und über ein regelmäßiges Wegenetz erschlossen sind. Diese Jahrhunderte andauernde Kontinuität des öffentlich genutzten Raumes bietet zusammen mit den Veränderungen des privaten Raumes ein lebendiges Bild der damals bedeutenden Stadt Urkes.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Écologie urbaine --- Urkesh (Extinct city) --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Écologie urbaine

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This book addresses international research communities concerned with conceptual, scientific, and design approaches to urban land developments and biodiversity. The main focus is on the understanding of human-environment interactions analysed by multi-disciplinary approaches. The articles in this important collection include new concepts and challenges for sustainable green space development emerging from the pressure caused by urbanisation. The concept of biophilic urbanism and the framework...

Sustainable urban development. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Land use, Urban --- City planning --- Urban land use --- Cities and towns --- Urban economics --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Environmentally sustainable urban development --- Sustainable development --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects

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Soundscape Ecology represents a new branch of ecology and it is the result of the integration of different disciplines like Landscape ecology, Bioacoustics, Acoustic ecology, Biosemiotics, etc. The soundscape that is the object of this discipline, is defined as the acoustic context resulting from natural and human originated sounds  and it is considered a relevant environmental proxy for animal and human life. With Soundscape Ecology Almo Farina means to offer a new cultural tool to investigate a partially explored component of the environmental complexity. For this he intends to set the principles of this new discipline, to delineate the epistemic domain  in which to develop new ideas and theories and to describe the necessary integration with all the other ecological/environmental disciplines. The book is organized in ten chapters. The first two chapters delineate principles and theory of soundscape ecology. Chapters three and four describe the bioacoustic and communication theories. Chapter five is devoted to the human dimension of soundscape.  Chapters six to eight regard the major sonic patterns like noise, choruses and vibrations. Chapter nine is devoted to the methods in soundscape ecology and finally chapter ten describes the application of the soundscape analysis.

Sound. --- Acoustics --- Life sciences. --- Behavioral sciences. --- Applied ecology. --- Landscape ecology. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Nature conservation. --- Life Sciences. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Urban Ecology. --- Applied Ecology. --- Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. --- Nature Conservation. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Cities and towns --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Conservation --- Environmental aspects --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Animal behavior. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Behavior --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Urban ecology (Biology)