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Towns and villages are sometimes viewed as minor, even quaint, spots, whereas this book boldly reconceptualizes these places as important dynamic environmental 'hotspots'. Multitudes of towns and villages with nearly half the world's population characterize perhaps half the global land surface. The book's pages feature ecological patterns, processes, and change, as well as human dimensions, both within towns and in strong connections and effects on surrounding agricultural land, forest land, and arid land. Towns, small to large, and villages are examined with spatial and cultural lenses. Ecological dimensions - water, soil and air systems, together with habitats, plants, wildlife and biodiversity - are highlighted. A concluding section presents concepts for making better towns and better land. From a pioneer in both landscape ecology and urban ecology, this highly international town ecology book opens an important frontier for researchers, students, professors, and professionals including environmental, town, and conservation planners.
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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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Nous sommes à la croisée des chemins. Chaque jour plus nombreux en ville, nous devons faire face à des problématiques environnementales majeures : le dérèglement climatique, la disparition accélérée de la biodiversité et la détérioration de nos cadres de vie. La ville est pointée du doigt pour sa lourde responsabilité. Pollution, stress, délitement des liens sociaux : ces préoccupations poussent les citadins à envisager de nouveaux modes de vie. À vouloir une autre ville. Mais tou n'est pas perdu, des perspectives existent ! Dans cet ouvrage prospectif, l'urbaniste Émeline Bailly, la psychologue environnementale Dorothée Marchand et l'ingénieur Alain Maugard croisent leurs regards, leurs expériences et leurs réflexions pour imaginer une nouvelle alliance entre citadins et nature. De cette discussion libre et constructive naît la possibilité d'une ville vivante, à nouveau désirable. Les auteurs militent pour le développement d'une biodiversité urbaine dont les trois piliers seraient la nature, la ville et les habitants. Ils s'interrogent sur le rôle que celle-ci pourrait jouer dans la reconquête de la biodiversité hors les murs, à l'échelle de la Terre. C'est donc à un véritable changement de paradigme qu'ils appellent. En créant les conditions d'une ville plus vivante, plus naturelle, plus stimulante, nous pourrions réconcilier ville et nature, améliorer la qualité urbaine et le bien-être des citadins, promouvoir une biodiversité urbaine riche et fondatrice, tout en réduisant l'impact de nos villes sur le climat. Qu'attendons-nous ?
Écologie urbaine --- Biodiversité urbaine --- Urbanisme durable --- Urban ecology (Biology)
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In the context of urban sustainable development, the “details” of sustainability’s current expressions perpetuate environmental injustice, untenable growth, and the destruction of functioning ecosystems. In response to this state of affairs, Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism aims to prompt new debates about the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice. Contributors explore policy, practice, and experience from cities around the world, including Calgary, Christchurch, Dortmund, Vancouver, and others. Written by scholars who live in these cities, chapters offer empirically rich descriptions for opening up new lines of thinking, theorizing, and debate about the sustainable city and its actual material expressions in place. By examining the sustainable city through various analytical framings, contributors urge readers to move from viewing the sustainable city as something everyone can agree on, to a highly politicized and contested process. Additional resources are provided for readers who may wish to extend their own research into a city or theme.
Urban ecology (Sociology) --- City planning --- Environmental aspects. --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Environmental aspects
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‘Dierschap’ is een inspirerend reflectieboek voor iedereen die op professionele basis bezig is met de planning, het ontwerp, de aanleg of het onderhoud van stedelijke ruimtes. Dieren spelen immers niet alleen een centrale rol in het leveren van allerhande ecosysteemdiensten, ze brengen ook kleur in de stad. Vaak bestaat er wel interesse bij stadsplanners, ontwerpers en beheerders om iets te doen voor stedelijke fauna, maar blijkt er in de praktijk toch veel aarzeling te bestaan. Hoe begin je eigenlijk aan het incorporeren van dieren in de planning, het ontwerp of beheer? Dit boek wil reflectie rond het onderwerp stimuleren en een aantal handvatten aanreiken. Met twee filosofische reflecties over de plaats van dieren in de stad en tien inspirerende verhalen vanuit het beleid, het ontwerp en de beheerpraktijk wil het boek het doelpubliek vooral over de streep trekken om weloverwogen aan de slag te gaan voor en met dieren in de stad.
71:574 --- Ecologische stedenbouw --- Stadsnatuur --- Nature inclusive design --- Stedenbouw en ecologie --- City planning --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- City planning - Belgium. --- Urban ecology (Biology) - Belgium.
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City planning --- Urban climatology. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Urban policy --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects.
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In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep interest in cities and their problems, and what this rapid change meant for the country. In Residual Futures, Franz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from this intensive urbanization, mapping the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation.Residual Futures examines crucial works of documentary film, fiction, and photography that interrogated Japan's urbanization and integration into the U.S.-dominated geopolitical system. Prichard discusses documentary filmmaker Tsuchimoto Noriaki's portrait of the urban "traffic war" and the remaking of Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics, novelist Abe Kōbō's depictions of infrastructure and urban sociality, and the radical notions of landscape that emerge from the critical and photographic work of Nakahira Takuma. His careful readings reveal the shifting relationships among urban materialities and subjectivities and the ecological, political, and aesthetic vocabularies of urban change. A novel cultural history of critical urban discourse in Japan, Residual Futures brings an interdisciplinary approach to Japanese literary and visual media studies. It provides a vital new perspective on the infrastructural aesthetics and entangled urban and media conditions of the global Cold War.
Mass media --- Social ecology --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urbanization --- Social aspects --- History. --- Japan --- History
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