Noch Fragen? 0800 / 33 82 637

Ecology of Tropical Cities

Natural and Social Sciences Applied to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities incubate new ideas and technologies, creating the conditions for socially and environmentally sensitive growth, but this is rarely seen. Urban ecology, an essential field that supports planning based on environmental perspectives, is a new science in tropical countries. This book discusses the inequity embedded in tropical cities, and explores how this inequity also materializes in biodiversity, with poor neighbourhoods of tropical cities lacking sufficient access to green space, and therefore less access to the benefits of nature, and poor support for biodiversity. With the current biodiversity crisis, the traditional approach to protecting pristine areas is insufficient. The chapters in this volume illustrate how tropical cities can act as spaces for biological conservation. Ecological literacy can help cities reconcile the needs of both people and of nature.This book compiles studies by experts from more than 100 institutions and 29 countries in the ecology and biodiversity of tropical cities at multiple scales, and applies their studies to urban planning and management. The audience for this book includes researchers, students and professionals working on environmental, social, economic, cultural, political, architectural and development projects in urban areas, offering a deep and timely discussion of their influence on the fauna and flora of cities. weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-031-48011-9 / 978-3031480119 / 9783031480119

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2024

Seiten: 497

Auflage: 1

Herausgegeben von Piotr Tryjanowski, MARK FELLOWES, Fabio Angeoletto, Mark D. E. Fellowes

246,09 € inkl. MwSt.
kostenloser Versand

vorbestellbar

zurück