Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities: A Global Assessment

• Hoofdauteur: Burak Güneralp (auth)
• Andere auteurs: Peter J. Marcotullio (auth), Cathy Wilkinson (auth), Thomas Elmqvist (auth), Maria Schewenius (auth), Karen C. Seto (auth), Julie Goodness (auth), Robert I. McDonald (auth), Susan Parnell (auth), Michail Fragkias (auth), Marte Sendstad (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Springer Nature 2013
• Onderwerpen: International Environmental Law; general; Sustainable Development; Complex Systems; Science; Urbanism; Urban Ecology
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to gl...