Towns, Ecology, and the Land - Softcover

Forman, Richard T. T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316648605 ISBN 13: 9781316648605

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Highlighting towns and villages as dynamic environmental places, this pioneering book uses an ecology lens to explore the strong connections and effects on surrounding farmland, forest, and arid land. Key flows of water, soil, air and human systems are spatially linked to habitats, wildlife, plants, and biodiversity patterns around towns.

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Reseña del editor:

Towns and villages are sometimes viewed as minor, even quaint, spots, whereas this book boldly reconceptualizes these places as important dynamic environmental 'hotspots'. Multitudes of towns and villages with nearly half the world's population characterize perhaps half the global land surface. The book's pages feature ecological patterns, processes, and change, as well as human dimensions, both within towns and in strong connections and effects on surrounding agricultural land, forest land, and arid land. Towns, small to large, and villages are examined with spatial and cultural lenses. Ecological dimensions - water, soil and air systems, together with habitats, plants, wildlife and biodiversity - are highlighted. A concluding section presents concepts for making better towns and better land. From a pioneer in both landscape ecology and urban ecology, this highly international town ecology book opens an important frontier for researchers, students, professors, and professionals including environmental, town, and conservation planners.

Biografía del autor:

Richard T. T. Forman is Research Professor in Landscape Ecology at Harvard University, Massachusetts, where he teaches Urban and Town Ecology. Often considered a 'father' of Landscape Ecology and Road Ecology, he helped spearhead Urban Ecology, and has received honours, awards, medals and honorary doctorates from universities across the world. His books include Landscape Ecology (1986), award-winning Land Mosaics (Cambridge, 1995), Urban Regions (Cambridge, 2008) and award-finalist Urban Ecology (Cambridge, 2014). He received an award for excellence in teaching, and has served for many years on boards for town planning and land-protection non-profit organizations.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1316648605
• ISBN 13: 9781316648605
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 598