Urban ecology emerging patterns and social-ecological systems / edited by Pramit Verma, Pardeep Singh, Rishikesh Singh, and A.S. Raghubanshi.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Oxford ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, [2020] |
| Description | xvii, 514 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Environmental Science 2020 [EBCES20] |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Verma, Pramit. |
| Other author/creator | Singh, Pardeep (Environmental engineer) |
| Other author/creator | Raghubanshi, A. S. |
| Other author/creator | Singh, Rishikesh. |
| Contents | Front Cover -- Urban Ecology -- URBAN ECOLOGY: EMERGING PATTERNS AND SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- References -- List of reviewers -- I -- Emerging facets of urban ecology eurban and urbanization, theory and concepts -- 1 -- Urban ecology -- current state of research and concepts -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 What is urban ecology? -- 1.2 Social-ecological systems and urban metabolism -- 2. State of research in urban ecology -- 2.1 Global trends in the past twodecades (1999-2019) |
| Contents | 2.2 Country-wise division of urban ecology research (from 2009 to 2019) -- 3. Urban ecology: concepts and definitions -- 3.1 The urban boundary -- 3.2 Urban metabolism -- 3.3 Land use land cover change -- 3.4 Modelling and remote sensing -- 3.5 Disaster risk reduction -- 3.6 Economies of scale -- 3.7 Urban ecological footprint -- 3.8 Urban sustainability indicators -- 3.9 Smart city -- 3.10 Sustainable city -- 3.11 Human health -- 3.12 Integrated approach -- 3.13 Governance and planning -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Further reading |
| Contents | 2 -- Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers, and the research agenda ahead -- 1. Urban metabolism: from concept to methods -- 1.1 One concept, a variety of methods -- 1.2 A variety of practical applications and end-users -- 2. Challenges and new frontiers for urban metabolism research -- 2.1 Understanding distinct conceptual underpinnings and common methods across ecological sciences -- 2.2 Expressing interdependency between biogeochemical cycles and socioeconomic flows of the urban metabolism |
| Contents | 2.3 Linking urban metabolism research with design: systematizing the growing evidence-base on nature-based solutions -- 3. Conclusions: a tentative research agenda -- References -- II -- Urban land use land cover -- 3 -- Urban growth pattern detection and analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Satellite image selection -- 3. Preprocessing of satellite imagery -- 4. Image classification methods -- 5. Optimization of postclassification processing -- 6. Accuracy assessment of the classification -- 7. Urbanization detection based on the image time-series -- 8. Results and analysis -- 9. Conclusions |
| Contents | Acknowledgement -- References -- 4 -- Exposition of spatial urban growth pattern using PSO-SLEUTH and identifying its effects on surface temperature -- 1. Background -- 2. Study area -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Data acquisition -- 3.2 Extraction of features -- 3.3 Preprocessing -- 3.4 Land-use analysis: Gaussian maximum likelihood classifier -- 3.5 Land surface temperature: single window algorithm -- 3.6 Landscape modelling and prediction: PSO-SLEUTH -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Land-use analysis -- 4.2 Land surface temperature -- 4.3 Landscape modelling and prediction -- 5. Conclusion |
| Abstract | Urban Ecology covers the latest theoretical and applied concepts in urban ecological research. This book covers the key environmental issues of urban ecosystems as well as the human-centric issues, particularly those of governance, economics, sociology and human health. The goal of Urban Ecology is to challenge readers' thinking around urban ecology from a resource-based approach to a holistic and applied field for sustainable development. There are seven major themes of the book: emerging urban concepts and urbanization, land use/land cover change, urban social-ecological systems, urban environment, urban material balance, smart, healthy and sustainable cities and sustainable urban design. Within each section, key concepts such as monitoring the urbanization phenomena, land use cover, urban soil fluxes, urban metabolism, pollution and human health and sustainable cities are covered. Urban Ecology serves as a comprehensive and advanced book for students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers in urban ecology and urban environmental research, planning and practice. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2020). |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020941625 |
| ISBN | 9780128207307 |
| ISBN | 0128207302 |
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