| ISBN13: | 9783031480119 |
| ISBN10: | 3031480112 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 464 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 9 Illustrations, black & white; 85 Illustrations, color |
| 700 |
Ecology of Tropical Cities
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This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive growth, but this is rarely seen. Urban ecology, an essential field that supports planning based on environmental perspectives, is a new science in tropical countries. This book discusses the social inequity embedded in tropical cities and explores how this inequity also materializes in biodiversity, with poor neighborhoods of tropical cities lacking sufficient access to green space, and therefore reduced access to the benefits of nature, and poor support for biodiversity. With the current biodiversity crisis, the traditional approach to protecting pristine areas is insufficient. The chapters in this volume illustrate how tropical cities can act as spaces for biological conservation. Ecological literacy can help cities reconcile the needs of both people and of nature.
This book compiles studies by experts from more than 100 institutions and 29 countries on the ecology and biodiversity of tropical cities at multiple scales and applies their studies to urban planning and management. The audience for this book includes researchers, students, and professionals working on environmental, social, economic, cultural, political, architectural, and development projects in urban areas, offering a deep and timely discussion of their influence on the fauna and flora of tropical cities.
This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive growth, but this is rarely seen. Urban ecology, an essential field that supports planning based on environmental perspectives, is a new science in tropical countries. This book discusses the social inequity embedded in tropical cities and explores how this inequity also materializes in biodiversity, with poor neighborhoods of tropical cities lacking sufficient access to green space, and therefore reduced access to the benefits of nature, and poor support for biodiversity. With the current biodiversity crisis, the traditional approach to protecting pristine areas is insufficient. The chapters in this volume illustrate how tropical cities can act as spaces for biological conservation. Ecological literacy can help cities reconcile the needs of both people and of nature.
This book compiles studies by experts from more than 100 institutions and 29 countries on the ecology and biodiversity of tropical cities at multiple scales and applies their studies to urban planning and management. The audience for this book includes researchers, students, and professionals working on environmental, social, economic, cultural, political, architectural, and development projects in urban areas, offering a deep and timely discussion of their influence on the fauna and flora of tropical cities.
1 The Ecology and Biodiversity of Tropical Cities Are as Important as Unknown.- 2 Could cities be an object of study for Ecology.- 3 Green Forest Gray Cities in the Amazon.- 4 Growing cities and shrinking fish Potential urbanization effects on fish and fisheries in tropical rivers.- 5 Latin America Where urbanization and poverty peak together with biodiversity.- 6 Vale Encantado Park Popular mobilization for a conservation area in a metropolitan environment.- 7 People animals and waste form systemic links within tropical cities Case of an urban raptor in Delhi India.- 8 Urban Green Spaces in Neotropical Cities Biodiversity Conservation and Menaces.- 9 Green and gray grids urban network natural resources and the construction of a sustainable landscape in northern Paraná state Brazil.- 10 Loss of seaweed biodiversity in marine tropical regions caused by unplanned coastal urbanization.- 11 Urban biological evolution in tropical cities.- 12 Exploring urban greenspace and biodiversity in tropical Africa.- 13 Urban Forestry and Forest City Agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta Southern China.- 14 Tree diversity in an urban industrial area implications for urban greening and conservation.- 15 Composition And Structure Of Urban Tree Communities In Brazilian Cities.- 16 Opposing Urban Ecology The Restrictions Of Morphology And Architectural Typology To Urban Forestry.- 17 Urban Biodiversity Hotspots Harnessing the Conservation Potential of Yards in Brazilian Tropical Cities.- 18 Agrobiodiversity conservation in the urban context and the role of indigenous peoples and local communities.- 19 Urbanites backyard Garden interaction and species preferences impound local biodiversity in an Afro tropical metropolitan.- 20 Urban Agriculture Issues and Challenges in Iran.- 21 Bats in tropical cities the ecology in of and for cities.- 22 Ecological dynamics of frogs in tropical cities Uncovering bias using a systematic literature review.