Urban Ecology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXX

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Urban Ecology — Scientific and Practical Aspects

      • Herbert Sukopp

      Pages 3-16

   3. Towards Ecological Sustainable Cities: Strategies, Models and Tools

      • Tjeerd Deelstra

      Pages 17-22

3. Ecological Cities — Models, Environmental Aims, Standards

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Perspectives on the Environment: New Options

      • Santosh Ghosh

      Pages 25-30

   3. Workshop: Environmental Quality Aims and Ecological Aims

      1. Environmental Accounting on a Communal Level

         • Jürgen Pietsch, Gabriele Kröger

         Pages 33-37

      2. Urban Development and Environmental Policy: Objectives Outline of a Multi-disciplinary Research Programme

         • Joop de Boer, Martin Dijst

         Pages 38-42

      3. Environmental Quality Goals and Standards as a Basis and Way to an Agenda 21 for Leipzig

         • Holger Tschense

         Pages 43-48

      4. Environmental Quality Targets for Urban Structural Units in Leipzig with a View to Sustainable Urban Development

         • Evelyne Wickop

         Pages 49-54

      5. The Role of „Process Chains Analysis“ in Investigating Environmental Problems of Cities

         • Karl-Heinz Simon, Uwe Fritsche

         Pages 55-59

      6. Environmental Quality Targets in the City of Wiesbaden

         • Thomas Votsmeier

         Pages 60-64

      7. Assessing the Metabolism of Urban Systems for Urban Planning

         • Stephan Pauleit, Friedrich Duhme

         Pages 65-69

   4. Workshop: Urban Climate

      1. The Urban Climate and Municipal Climate Protection — Different Sides of the Same Coin?

         • Manfred Grauthoff

         Pages 73-77

      2. A Case Study on the Effects of Vegetation on the Climate in the Urban Area

         • Takashi Asaeda, Vu Thanh Ca

         Pages 78-81

      3. Assessment of Human-Biometeorological Conditions in Different Kinds of Urban Structures

         • Bernhard Bauer

         Pages 82-86

      4. Models for Setting up a Biometeorological Warning System over a Populated Area in Havana

         • Paulo L. Ortiz Bultó, María E. Nieves Poveda, A. Vladimir Guevara Velazco

         Pages 87-91

   5. Workshop: Air Pollution

      1. Air Quality in a Tropical Mega-City — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

         • Werner Habbel, Antonio Carlos Dias dos Santos, Horst Pasenau, José Arnaldo Sales

         Pages 95-98

      2. Airborne Pollutants from Mobile Sources for the City of Mendoza, Argentina

         • Enrique Puliafito, Carlos Puliafito, José Quero, Pablo Guerreiro

         Pages 99-103

      3. Suburban Commercial Estates and their Impact on the Situation of Immissions in the City of Leipzig

         • Dietrich Wagler, Klaus Freyer, Peter Popp, Hanns-Christian Treutler

         Pages 104-108

Provides an overview of international developments in urban ecology, with many examples from cities worldwide. In addition, this book presents a unique exchange of experiences and ideas, with a focus on cooperation between researchers and those involved in putting ideas into practice.
Topics include: aims and standards for ecological cities; the integration of ecologial, economic, social and cultural aspects; land use as a controlling factor; ecologically responsible mobility; and the integration of nature and landscape into urban development.

• Agenda 21
• Air pollution
• Climate protection
• Infiltration
• Monitoring
• Stadt
• Stadtplanung
• Stadtökologie
• Water protection
• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment
• environmental sociology
• urban regional and structural planing
• vegetation
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Leipzig, Germany

  Jürgen Breuste, Hildegard Feldmann, Ogarit Uhlmann

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