| ISBN13: | 9783031708664 |
| ISBN10: | 30317086611 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 694 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 20 Illustrations, black & white; 125 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.
23 A global review of urban pollinators and implications for maintaining pollination services in tropical cities.- 24 Insects In The City Patterns Of Biodiversity Interactions And Ecosystem Services In Urban Green Areas.- 25 Revisiting butterfly diversity in Kolkata India conservation from urban perspectives.- 26 What do butterflies tell us about tropical and subtropical urban biodiversity.- 27 Ecosystem services provided by insects in tropical cities the role of bees dung beetles and odonates.- 28 Land snail diversity of Kolkata India potential for sustenance of urban green.- 29 Give Urban Biodiversity A Chance A Forest Fragment Harbors High Bird Species Richness In A Tropical City.- 30 Birds of prey from high altitude cities Bolivia Between extreme limitations and adaptations winners.- 31 Urban bird assemblages characterization based on diversity and ecological network.- 32 Urban Common Swift Apus apus nest box projects in Central Israel a case study of environmental education with urban wildlife.- 33 Ecosystem services of Leopards Panthera pardus fusca to the conurbation of Jaipur India.- 34 Functional diversity and the functional traits of the tropical urban fauna.- 35 Frugivory and seed dispersal in tropical urban areas a review.- 36 GLUEing the world the GLobal Urban Evolution project and its importance to urban biodiversity conservation.- 37 A low cost method to detect invasive species in the urban environment an example of a drone based workflow application.- 38 Evaluation of Urban Green Areas a Methodological Proposition.- 39 Social ecological dynamics of green and blue infrastructure in the Indian megacity of Bengaluru.- 40 Environmental Quality Indicators in Brazilian Squares as a Conservation Strategy for Urban Biodiversity.- 41 Patch and Landscape Metrics applied to Urban Green Space Analysis aiming to detect Habitat availability to Birds and Bats in Ponta Grossa a medium sized city in Brazil.- 42 Using landscape design to mitigate urban climate Campinas Case.- 43 Environmental journalisms contribution to the conservation of urban biodiversity information education and increasing awareness.- 44 Perpetuating protection of Brazils Legal Reserve Area and the future of tropical cities in the Brazilian Amazon.- 45 The ecological sensitivity of cities defining a system of green corridors.- 46 Public Policies And Biodiversity Conservation In Conflict In A Brazilian Agribusiness City.