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"How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. In The Bird-Friendly City, Timothy Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, takes readers on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. Efforts span a fascinating breadth of approaches: public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture, art, civil disobedience, and more. Readers will come away motivated to implement and advocate for bird-friendly changes, drawing from inspiring examples that show it's possible to make our urban environments more welcoming for many bird species"--
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Urban wildlife management --- Schools --- Environmental aspects
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Urban wildlife management --- Apartment houses --- Environmental aspects
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The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops. Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of American urban life, here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
Draft horses --- Urban animals --- History --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- Heavy horses --- Draft animals --- Horses
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This book is a collection of papers highlighting ways in which Raptors have successfully adapted to man-made landscapes and structures. The coverage of Raptors in Human Landscapes is broad, ranging from the impact of human activity on country-wide scales to the particular conditions associated with urban, cultivated, and industrial landscapes, as well as to the various schemes specifically directed towards the provision of artificial nest sites and platforms. The cases described hail from a wide geographic range including North and South America, Europe, Africa and elsewhere, and from a
Birds of prey --- Urban animals. --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- Adaptation. --- Olendorff, Richard R.
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In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
Urban animals --- Draft horses --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- Heavy horses --- Draft animals --- Horses --- History
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Urban development is one of the leading worldwide threats to conserving biodiversity. In the near future, wildlife management in urban landscapes will be a prominent issue for wildlife professionals. This new edition of Urban Wildlife Management continues the work of its predecessors by providing a comprehensive examination of the issues that increase the need for urban wildlife management, exploring the changing dynamics of the field while giving historical perspectives and looking at current trends and future directions. The book examines a range of topics on human interactions with wildlife in urbanized environments. It focuses not only on ecological matters but also on political, economic, and societal issues that must be addressed for successful management planning. This edition features an entirely new section on urban wildlife species, including chapters on urban communities, herpetofauna, birds, ungulates, mammals, carnivores, and feral and introduced species.
Urban wildlife management --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Urban animals --- Wildlife conservation --- Écologie urbaine. --- Animaux des villes. --- Animaux --- Populations --- Gestion. --- Conservation des ressources. --- États-Unis.
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Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Berlin --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban wildlife management --- City planning --- Urban policy --- Ecologie urbaine --- Faune urbaine --- Urbanisme --- Politique urbaine --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Aménagement --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Aménagement
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"Animals are increasingly recognized as fit and proper subjects for historians, yet their place in conventional historical narratives remains contested. This volume argues for a history of animals based on the centrality of liminality - the state of being on the threshold, not quite one thing yet not quite another. Since animals stand between nature and culture, wildness and domestication, the countryside and the city, and tradition and modernity, the concept of liminality has a special resonance for historical animal studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Urban animals --- Human-animal relationships --- History. --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- Liminality. --- Civilization --- Cultural history --- Anthropology --- Psychology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Zoology --- History --- Europe --- Western
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