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Introduction to Urban Ecology
Landscape based conservation * Natural landscape/protective landscape – forest/wildlife ecology * Productive landscape – rural ecology * Built or urban landscape – urban ecology
Urban landscape * Built area – buildings, roads, drainage etc * Open green space such as public parks Landscape and level of modification * Street trees and home gardens * Water bodies – ponds, rivers * Urban ecosystems differ with natural one in several respects: in climate, soil, hydrology, species composition, population dynamics, flow of energy and matters.
What is Urban Ecology? * Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. * The application of the principles of ecology to a study of urban environments. * The term “urban ecology” has been used variously to describe the study of humans in cities, of nature in cities, and of the coupled relationships between humans and nature. * Urban ecology is the study of the co-evolution of human-ecological systems * It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human and ecological processes can coexist in human-dominated systems and help societies with their efforts to become more sustainable. * "Ecology of cities" and "ecology in cities"
History of urban ecology * It flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, went through a period of neglect. * It was revived in the late 1950s and early 1960s * Interest is growing but it is still not seen as central in conservation studies.
Why Urban Ecology
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Introduction to Urban Ecology
Landscape based conservation * Natural landscape/protective landscape – forest/wildlife ecology * Productive landscape – rural ecology * Built or urban landscape – urban ecology
Urban landscape * Built area – buildings, roads, drainage etc * Open green space such as public parks Landscape and level of modification * Street trees and home gardens * Water bodies – ponds, rivers * Urban ecosystems differ with natural one in several respects: in climate, soil, hydrology, species composition, population dynamics, flow of energy and matters.
What is Urban Ecology? * Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. * The application of the principles of ecology to a study of urban environments. * The term “urban ecology” has been used variously to describe the study of humans in cities, of nature in cities, and of the coupled relationships between humans and nature. * Urban ecology is the study of the co-evolution of human-ecological systems * It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human and ecological processes can coexist in human-dominated systems and help societies with their efforts to become more sustainable. * "Ecology of cities" and "ecology in cities"
History of urban ecology * It flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, went through a period of neglect. * It was revived in the late 1950s and early 1960s * Interest is growing but it is still not seen as central in conservation studies.
Why Urban Ecology