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The bird-friendly city
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ISBN: 1642830488 9781642830484 9781642830477 Year: 2020 Publisher: Washington, DC

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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 refuge : standards of excellence.
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Year: 2014 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.?] : [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service],

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An invitation to a healthy schoolyard.
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Year: 2006 Publisher: [Washington, DC?] : United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service : National Audubon Society,

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An invitation to a healthy apartment.
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Year: 2006 Publisher: [Washington, DC?] : United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service : National Audubon Society,

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The horse in the city : living machines in the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 9780801886003 0801886007 9781421400433 142140043X Year: 2007 Publisher: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press,

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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.

Raptors in human landscapes
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ISBN: 1281027103 9786611027100 0080547540 9780080547541 9780121001308 012100130X Year: 1996 Publisher: London San Diego Academic Press

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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

The horse in the city
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ISBN: 1435692640 0801892317 9781435692640 9780801892318 9781421400433 142140043X 9780801886003 0801886007 Year: 2007 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press

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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.


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Urban wildlife management
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ISBN: 9781032097961 9781498702010 9781315371863 Year: 2021 Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis Group,

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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.


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Greening Berlin : the co-production of science, politics, and urban nature
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ISBN: 9780262018593 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press


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Animal history in the modern city : exploring liminality
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ISBN: 1350054062 1350054046 1350054038 1350155233 1350054054 9781350054059 9781350054066 9781350054042 Year: 2018 Publisher: [London] : Bloomsbury Academic,

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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.

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