For the first time in history, more than half the people of the world live in cities.
Comprehending the impact of this widespread urbanization requires an awareness of the …

Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The
book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the …

A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their
social, political, and ecological complexity The first" urban century" in history has arrived: a …

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These
extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design …

I Introduction The study ofhuman-environment relations in geography has gone through a
dizzying series oftheoretical, philosophical and methodological transformations in the past …

The development of the science of urban ecology in the United States has not been
continuous. We identify three specific periods during the twentieth century when the …

As humans have come to dominate the earth, the ideal of studying and teaching ecology in
pristine ecosystems has become impossible to achieve. Our planet is now a mosaic of …

Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives.
The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all …

In starting a new journal about urban ecosystems, it is useful to review some of the dominant
themes that have run through recent and historic discussions of cities as environments …

Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more
urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human activity is most intense-cities. People …