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Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology


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This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to urban ecology. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).

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Urban Nature Enriching Belonging, Wellbeing and Bioculture

Urban Nature: Enriching Belonging, Wellbeing and Bioculture

1st Edition

Edited By Michelle L. Cocks, Charlie M. Shackleton
May 30, 2022

This book showcases the diversity of ways in which urban residents from varying cultural contexts view, interact, engage with and give meaning to urban nature, aiming to counterbalance the dominance of Western depictions and values of urban nature and design. Urban nature has up to now largely ...

Urban Expansion, Land Cover and Soil Ecosystem Services

Urban Expansion, Land Cover and Soil Ecosystem Services

1st Edition

Edited By Ciro Gardi
January 23, 2019

More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss of land for other purposes, particularly soil for agriculture and drainage. This book presents a review of current knowledge of the extension and ...

Urban Landscape Ecology Science, policy and practice

Urban Landscape Ecology: Science, policy and practice

1st Edition

Edited By Robert A. Francis, James D.A. Millington, Michael A. Chadwick
June 08, 2018

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries but also in surrounding peri-urban areas. Landscape ecology – the study of interactions across space and time between the structure and function of ...

Urban Biodiversity From Research to Practice

Urban Biodiversity: From Research to Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Alessandro Ossola, Jari Niemelä
December 05, 2017

Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers. Worldwide, thousands of research projects are unravelling how urbanisation impacts the biodiversity of cities and towns, as well as its benefits for people and the environment through ecosystem services. Exciting scientific ...

Green Infrastructure Incorporating Plants and Enhancing Biodiversity in Buildings and Urban Environments

Green Infrastructure: Incorporating Plants and Enhancing Biodiversity in Buildings and Urban Environments

1st Edition

By John W. Dover
September 15, 2015

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live. The principal aim of this book is to synthesize the disparate literature on the use of vegetation in the built environment and its multifunctional ...

Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace A Political Ecology Perspective

Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, Sadia Butt
July 16, 2014

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city. Their study is not only a question of the growth and conservation of green spaces, but also has social, cultural and psychological dimensions. This book brings a perspective of political ecology ...

Urban Ecosystems Understanding the Human Environment

Urban Ecosystems: Understanding the Human Environment

1st Edition

By Robert A. Francis, Michael A. Chadwick
April 23, 2013

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting of green space and the built environment, they harbour a wide range of species, yet are not well understood.  This book aims...

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