Urban Ecology: Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems 1st Edition Pramit Verma (Editor)

Urban Ecology: Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780128207307,0128207302

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0128207302
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0128207307
• Author(s): Pramit Verma, Pardeep Singh, Rishikesh Singh, A. S. Raghubanshi

Urban Ecology covers the latest theoretical and applied concepts in urban ecological research. This book covers the key environmental issues of urban ecosystems as well as the human-centric issues, particularly those of governance, economics, sociology and human health. The goal of Urban Ecology is to challenge readers’ thinking around urban ecology from a resource-based approach to a holistic and applied field for sustainable development. There are seven major themes of the book: emerging urban concepts and urbanization, land use/land cover change, urban social-ecological systems, urban environment, urban material balance, smart, healthy and sustainable cities and sustainable urban design. Within each section, key concepts such as monitoring the urbanization phenomena, land use cover, urban soil fluxes, urban metabolism, pollution and human health and sustainable cities are covered. Urban Ecology serves as a comprehensive and advanced book for students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers in urban ecology and urban environmental research, planning and practice.

Table 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 ahead

Theme 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 temperature

 

Theme 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 wellbeing

Theme 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 study

 

Theme 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 ecosystems

 

Theme 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 sustainability

Theme 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

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