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Urban Ecology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Urban Ecology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-17
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns proceeds sustainably. Urban ecology, the interdisciplinary study of ecological patterns and processes in towns and cities, is a rapidly developing field that can provide a scientific basis for the informed decision-making and planning needed to create both viable and sustainable cities. Urban Ecology brings together an international team of leading scientists to discuss our current understanding of all aspects of urban environments, from the biology of the organisms that inhabit them to the diversity of ecosystem s...

Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands

This second edition of this important and authoritative survey provides students and researchers with up-to-date and accessible information about the ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Prominent scholars help students understand both general concepts of different wetland types as well as complex topics related to these dynamic physical environments. Careful syntheses review wetland soils, hydrology, and geomorphology; abiotic constraints for wetland plants and animals; microbial ecology and biogeochemistry; development of wetland plant communities; wetland animal ecology; and carbon dynamics and ecosystem processes. In addition, contributors document wetland regulation, policy, an...

Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 860

Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-26
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Both practical and theoretical, this book provides the basic principles of soil chemistry, hydrology, wetland ecology, microbiology, vegetation and wildlife as a sound introduction to this innovative technology to treat toxic wastewaters and sludges. The use of wetlands for acid mine drainage, and metals removal in municipal, urban runoff, and industrial systems is discussed. Case histories are also presented, demonstrating specific types of constructed wetlands and applications to municipal wastewater, home sites, coal and non-coal mining, coal-fired electric power plants, chemical and pulp industry, agriculture, landfill leachate, and urban stormwater. Construction and management guideline...

Preview of Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Preview of Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Lists the contents of the full two-volume report, and gives the text of the chapter on the Mississippi River from vol. 1.

Grounding Urban Natures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

Grounding Urban Natures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-03
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as “smart cities,” “eco-cities,” and “resilience,” and proposing a “science of cities” based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine how urban natures are part of—and are s...

Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 992

Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Ecology of Cities and Towns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 747

Ecology of Cities and Towns

The unprecedented growth of cities and towns around the world, coupled with the unknown effects of global change, has created an urgent need to increase ecological understanding of human settlements, in order to develop inhabitable, sustainable cities and towns in the future. Although there is a wealth of knowledge regarding the understanding of human organisation and behaviour, there is comparably little information available regarding the ecology of cities and towns. This book brings together leading scientists, landscape designers and planners from developed and developing countries around the world, to explore how urban ecological research has been undertaken to date, what has been learnt, where there are gaps in knowledge, and what the future challenges and opportunities are.

Caring for Coastal Wetlands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 20

Caring for Coastal Wetlands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Wildlife Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1072

Wildlife Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Geography for a Changing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 74

Geography for a Changing World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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