USGS Publications — Fact Sheet 2005-3014 Version 1.1, - 6 p. Mercury contamination from historical gold mines represents a potential risk to human health and the environment. This fact sheet provides background information on the use of mercury in historical gold mining and processing operations in California, with emphasis on historical hydraulic mining areas. It also...
Springer, 2009. — 375 p. — ISBN: 978-0-387-84890-7. For much of the first 200 years of industrialization, the urban water environment was developed by trial and error, often with unintended consequences. The modern "water closet" became widely used; public officials realized that sewers were needed, epidemics of cholera and typhoid were rampart, and eventually, the Cuyahoga...
Island Press, 2016. — 254. — ISBN: 978-1610916202. What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green roofs are increasingly appreciated for their technical services like stormwater reduction, from a biophilic viewpoint, they also facilitate experiences that contribute to better...
Island Press, 2012. - 248 p. ISBN10: 1597269751 In the absence of federal leadership, states and localities are stepping forward to address critical problems like climate change, urban sprawl, and polluted water and air. Making a city fundamentally sustainable is a daunting task, but fortunately, there are dynamic, innovative models outside U.S. borders. Green Cities of Europe...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 446 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-26050-9. Multidisciplinary treatment of the urgent issues surrounding urban pollution worldwide. Written by some of the top experts on the subject in the world, this book presents the diverse, complex and current themes of the urban pollution debate across the built environment, urban development and management continuum. It...
Process, 2019. — 360 p. — (Process Self-reliance Series). The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects. This celebrated, essential handbook shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more. Step-by-step projects, tips, and anecdotes will help get you started...
Springer, 2021. — 634 p. This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada. While green roofs were intended to sustain local or regional vegetation, this volume describes how green roofs in their modern form are typically planted with a low-diversity mix of sedums from Europe or Asia. The authors demonstrate how in the...
Springer, 2011 — 367 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-17730-9. This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology. The book investigates specific consequences for the environment, nature and the quality of life for city dwellers due to profound changes such as climate change and the demographic and economic developments associated with the phenomena of shrinking cities. The...
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2015. – 366 p. – ISBN: 978-1-77188-282-8 With increasing global urbanization, the environments and ecologies of cities are often perceived to suffer. While pollution and destruction of green space and species may occur, cities also remain part of natural systems. Cities provide natural processes necessary for survival for humans and other living...
New York: Nova Science, 2015. – 139 p. – ISBN: 9781634636414 – (Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology) One of the most exciting new trends in water quality management today is the movement by many cities, counties, states, and private-sector developers toward the increased use of Low Impact Development (LID) to help protect and restore water quality. LID comprises a...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 606 p.— ISBN 978- 1- 107- 19913- 2. Towns and villages are sometimes viewed as minor, even quaint, spots, whereas this book boldly reconceptualizes these places as important dynamic environmental 'hotspots'. Multitudes of towns and villages with nearly half the world's population characterize perhaps half the global land surface. The book's...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. XIV, 464 p. – ISBN: 978-1-107-00700-0 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-521-18824-1 (paperback). A richly illustrated, worldwide portrayal of urban ecology - it draws scholars, students, and professionals to the field with a solid footing Presents the ecology of diverse human structures - from residential, commercial and industrial areas to...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. XIV, 464 p. – ISBN: 978-1-107-00700-0 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-521-18824-1 (paperback). A richly illustrated, worldwide portrayal of urban ecology - it draws scholars, students, and professionals to the field with a solid footing Presents the ecology of diverse human structures - from residential, commercial and industrial areas to...
Cambridge Univercity Press, 2014. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0521188245, 9780521188241 How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology:...
Island Press, 2010. — 288 p. For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use or could use the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and...
Springer, 2015. — 408 p. — ISBN: 3319114689, 9783319114682, 9783319114699 This book aims to promote the synergistic usage of advanced computational methodologies in close relationship to geospatial information across cities of different scales. A rich collection of chapters subsumes current research frontiers originating from disciplines such as geography, urban planning,...
ADB, 2012. - 428 p. ISBN: 9290928966 978929098973 One purpose of this book is to direct the green agenda toward compact, multifunctional, and efficient urban areas. It focuses on "greening" of a number of urban infrastructure services such as urban transport, and provision of water and sanitation services, waste management, and energy sources for urban areas. Spatial...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. – 299 p. – ISBN: 978-3-319-15152-6 – (Future City 5) This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 736 p. — ISBN: 0521861128. 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...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2010, 318 p. This book gives a current overview of all facets of urban soils. Different urban land-use types in a number of examples worldwide are introduced. Many examples in different countries are provided in order to illustrate the situation in detail. The contaminant sources of urban soils (e.g., dust deposition, contamination along...
Chippenham: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 392 p. — ISBN: 019956356X, 0199643954. 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...
Berkeley: University of California Press. 2004. – 291 p. From sky to sea in Los Angeles, water passes through an urban ecosystem. In that system, the political, social, economic, cultural, and physical features of the city have joined climate, geology, biology, and topography to determine when, where, and how water flows. That makes it urban. In particular, we need to understand...
Wiley, 2016 — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1-444332643. Studies the distribution, abundance and behaviour of organisms, their interactions with each other and with their urban environment * Case studies with questions to improve retention and understanding * Uses existing ecological theory to identify generalities and complexities in the urban ecosystems * Discusses the urban ecology of...
Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft, 2004. — 456 p. It is expected that in this year (2005), about half of the human population will be urban dwellers, and the proportion is increasing. Thus, urban areas - including green areas - are becoming increasingly important for humankind. In order to manage urban areas for the benefit of people and biodiversity more information is needed about...
Elsevier, 2019. — 606 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812843-5. This book covers all aspects on the implementation of sustainable storm water systems for urban and suburban areas whether they are labeled as WSUD, Low Impact Development (LID), Green Infrastructure (GI), Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) or the Sponge City Concept. These systems and approaches are becoming an...
United Nations Human Settlements Program, 2012. – 152 p. What this new edition of State of the World's Cities shows is that prosperity for all has been compromised by a narrow focus on economic growth. UN-Habitat suggests a fresh approach to prosperity beyond the solely economic emphasis, including other vital dimensions such as quality of life, adequate infrastructures, equity...
Springer, 2015. — 447 p. — (Ecological Studies). — ISBN: 3319149822, 9783319149820 This book provides an up-to-date coverage of green (vegetated) roof research, design, and management from an ecosystem perspective. It reviews, explains, and poses questions about monitoring, substrate, living components, and the abiotic, biotic, and cultural aspects connecting green roofs to the...
Wiley, 2015 — 522 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-56818-7. This authoritative volume brings together some of the world’s leading researchers, academics, practitioners and transportation agency personnel to present the current status of the ecological sustainability of the linear infrastructure – primarily road, rail and utility easements – that dissect and fragment landscapes globally. It...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 224 p. A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn’t most nature writers. He lives and works not in some perfectly remote cabin in the woods but in a city - a big city. And that...
Springer, 2011. — 295 p. — ISBN: 9400703821, 9789400703827 Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be merely human-centred in approach. Instead, the...
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