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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...