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Urban ecology – current state of research and concepts

Pramit Verma,Rishikesh Singh,Pardeep Singh,A. S. Raghubanshi

Published 2020 in Unknown venue

ABSTRACT

Abstract Urban ecology is a cross-cutting theme across the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. As such, different aspects of urban ecology are dealt with by different experts. Urbanization in developing countries is driven by economic benefits while developed countries, having large ecological footprints, can focus on efficiency reducing the impact of urban growth on the ecosystem. The society is losing its appreciation for the ecosystem services, thereby diminishing resilience in terms of mitigating problems arising out of urbanization such as air quality deterioration, restricted living space, urban heat island (UHI) effect, urban health, groundwater scarcity, loss of water bodies and so on. While urbanization has many detrimental effects on the ecosystem, it has also led to innovations aimed at reducing these effects, such as water harvesting systems, energy-efficient homes, landscape planning, sustainable commuting and green space accessibility. Due to these advances, the perspective towards urban ecology has changed from a theoretical and empirical study to an applied and transdisciplinary field. In this book, advances in urban ecology have been integrated with emerging fields from ecological and environmental as well as from human-centric perspective, particularly governance, economics, social–ecological systems, urban boundary, the impact of urbanization on climate change and human health, and sustainable cities. This chapter gives a brief background of urban ecology, need for considering cities as social–ecological systems, the current state of research and major concepts described in this book.

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