Overview
- Includes 10 detailed field exercises to promote hands on experience, observation, and quantification of urban ecosystem structure and function
- Provides an overview for graduate students and a rich literature base on the topic
- Written by seventeen specialists
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Systems Approaches to Understanding How Our Cities Work
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The City in History
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Urban Ecological Systems: Structure, Function, Controls, and Effects on Social-Ecological Metabolism
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Designing Solutions to Deal with Impacts of Urbanization: Past, Present, and Future
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephen Balogh earned his doctorate from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the US EPA Office of Research and Development in the Atlantic Ecology Division. He is an environmental scientist who studies communities and their connections to the environment across global, regional and local scales – including nutrient issues, ecosystem services, energy and material flows, and restoration. He has collaborated with other scientists, academics, and stakeholders on a broad range of interdisciplinary research. These projects range in scale from regional optimization of nitrogen removal interventions in Cape Cod to neighborhood scale analyses of ecosystem services and material andenergy flows resulting from restoration efforts and population dynamics in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to his current position, he worked as a visiting assistant professor at SUNY-ESF and adjunct at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, where he taught courses about urban ecology, renewable energy, and sustainable business strategies. His PhD dissertation is entitled "Feeding and Fueling the Cities of the 21st Century." He has published eleven papers and several book chapters on the nexus of the environment, energy, and the economy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Urban Ecology
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach
Editors: Myrna H. P. Hall, Stephen B. Balogh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11259-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11258-5Published: 25 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11259-2Published: 10 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 360
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Ecology, Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Nature Conservation