
Urban Ecology
Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems
Description
Key Features
- Includes global case studies from over 14 countries, providing a first-hand account of recent applications
- Covers the phenomena of sustainable transport, nutrient recovery and human health, among many others
- Examines environmental issues as well as social-ecological systems and governance
Readership
Ecologists, Environmental Scientists, Engineers, Social Scientists, Economists
Table of Contents
Theme 1: Emerging facets of urban ecology – urban and urbanization, theory and concepts
1. Urban ecology – current state of research and concepts
2. Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers and the research agenda aheadTheme 2: Urban land use/land cover
3. Urban growth pattern detection and analysis
4. Exposition of spatial urban growth pattern using PSO-SLEUTH and identifying its effects on surface temperatureTheme 3: Social-ecological systems
5. Stressors of disaster-induced displacement and migration in India
6. Ecological economics of an urban settlement: an overview
7. Urban greenspace, social equity and human wellbeingTheme 4: Urban Environment
8. Urbanization, urban agriculture and food security
9. Carbon reduction strategies for the built environment in a tropical city
10. Trends in active and sustainable mobility: experiences from emerging cycling territories of Dhaka and Innsbruck
11. Air quality and its impact on urban environment
12. Sustainable water management in megacities of the future
13. Comparing invasive alien plant community composition between urban, peri-urban and rural areas; the city of Cape Town as a case studyTheme 5: Urban material balance
14. Types, sources and management of urban wastes
15. Nutrient recovery from the municipal waste stream: status and prospects
16. Determinants of soil carbon dynamics in urban ecosystemsTheme 6: Cities: healthy, smart and sustainable
17. Urban ecology and human health: implications of urban heat island, air pollution and climate change nexus
18. Cities management and sustainable development: monitoring and assessment approach
19. Challenges in assessing urban sustainabilityTheme 7: Sustainable urban design
20. Towards sustainable urban redevelopment: urban design informed by morphological patterns and ecologies of informal settlements in cities
21. Assessing the role of urban design in a rapidly urbanizing historical city and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India
22. 'Green building' movement in India: study on institutional support and regulatory support
23. Challenges and innovations of transportation and collection of waste
24. Critical assessment and future dimensions for the urban ecological systems
Product details
- No. of pages: 532
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2020
- Published: July 14, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128207314
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128207307
About the Editors
Pramit Verma
Affiliations and Expertise
Pardeep Singh
Affiliations and Expertise
Rishikesh Singh
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A. Raghubanshi
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Dr. B. Tue Jun 30 2020
Urban Ecology book
This book is an important work on the environmental scene, including the perspectives of sustainability at different levels of application. It is a good opportunity to deepen your knowledge in different fields of knowledge.