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Urban Ecology

An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature

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  1. John M. Marzluff

    1. University of Washington, Seattle

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  2. Eric Shulenberger

    1. University of Washington, Seattle

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  3. Wilfried Endlicher

    1. Geographisches Institute, Humboldt University Unter den Linden, 10099 Berlin, Germany

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  4. Marina Alberti

    1. University of Washington, Seattle

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  5. Gordon Bradley

    1. University of Washington, Seattle

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  6. Clare Ryan

    1. University of Washington, Seattle

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  7. Ute Simon

    1. Humboldt University Miningstrasse 46, 12359 Berlin, Germany

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  8. Craig ZumBrunnen

    1. University of Washington, Seattle

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  • Presents a comprehensive view of the urban ecosystem by introducing drivers, patterns, processes and effects of human settlements and the relationships between humans and other animals, plants, ecosystem processes, and abiotic conditions

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to a Research Project Ernest W. Burgess Abstract The aggregation of urban population has been described by Bücher and Weber. A soc- logical study of the growth of the city, however, is concerned with the de nition and description of processes, as those of (a) expansion, (b) metabolism, and (c) mobility. The typical tendency of urban growth is the expansion radially from its central business district by a series of concentric circles, as (a) the central business district, (b) a zone of deterioration, (c) a zone of workingmen’s homes, (d)a residential area, and (e) a commuters’ zone. Urban growth may be even more fundamentally stated as the resultant of processes of organization and disorganization, like the anabolic and katabolic processes of metabolism in the human body. The distribution of population into the natural areas of the city, the division of labor, the differentiation into social and cultural groupings, represent the normal manifestations of urban metabolism, as statistics of disease, crime, disorder, vice, insanity, and suicide are rough indexes of its abnormal expression. The state of metabolism of the city may, it is suggested, be measured by mobility, de ned as a change of movement in response to a new stimulus or situation. Areas in the city of the greatest mobility are found to be also regions of juvenile delinquency, boys’ gangs, crime, poverty, wife desertion, divorce, abandoned infants, etc.

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Table of contents (50 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXV
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  2. Urbanization and Human Domination of Earth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems

      • Peter M. Vitousek, Harold A. Mooney, Jane Lubchenco, Jerry M. Melillo
      Pages 3-13

    3. Humans as the World’s Greatest Evolutionary Force

      • Stephen R. Palumbi
      Pages 15-24

    4. Urbanization

      • Brian J.L. Berry
      Pages 25-48

    5. Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Field: Differences in the use of “Urban” Between the Social and Natural Sciences

      • Nancy E. McIntyre, K. Knowles-Yánez, D. Hope
      Pages 49-65

  3. Conceptual Foundations of Urban Ecology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-69
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    2. The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project

      • Ernest W. Burgess
      Pages 71-78

    3. On the Early History of Urban Ecology in Europe

      • Herbert Sukopp
      Pages 79-97

    4. Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas

      • S.T.A. Pickett, M.L. Cadenasso, J.M. Grove, C.H. Nilon, R.V. Pouyat, W.C. Zipperer et al.
      Pages 99-122

    5. Integrated Approaches to Long-Term Studies of Urban Ecological Systems

      • Nancy B. Grimm, J. Morgan Grove, Steward T.A. Pickett, Charles L. Redman
      Pages 123-141

    6. Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems

      • Marina Alberti, John M. Marzluff, Eric Shulenberger, Gordon Bradley, Clare Ryan, Craig Zumbrunnen
      Pages 143-158

  4. The Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Pedosphere

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Sealing of Soils

      • Gerd Wessolek
      Pages 161-179

    3. Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn

      • Paul Robbins, Julie T. Sharp
      Pages 181-205

    4. Streams in the Urban Landscape

      • Michael J. Paul, Judy L. Meyer
      Pages 207-231

    5. The Urban Climate – Basic and Applied Aspects

      • Wilhelm Kuttler
      Pages 233-248

    6. Global Warming and the Urban Heat Island

      • Maria João Alcoforado, Henrique Andrade
      Pages 249-262

    7. A Retrospective Assessment of Mortality from the London Smog Episode of 1952: The Role of Influenza and Pollution

      • Micheile L. Bell, Devra L. Davis, Tony Fletcher
      Pages 263-268

    8. Heat Waves, Urban Climate and Human Health

      • Wilfried Endlicher, Gerd Jendritzky, Joachim Fischer, Jens-Peter Redlich
      Pages 269-278
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"This impressive volume is a collection of important papers on Urban Ecology … . Anyone who picks up this book and starts reading, either from the start, or from anywhere in between, will not lay it down easily. … It is highly recommended for everyone interested in the nature of interactions of organisms and their environment." (Hannelore Hoch, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 55 (2), 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Washington, Seattle

    John M. Marzluff, Eric Shulenberger, Marina Alberti, Gordon Bradley, Clare Ryan, Craig ZumBrunnen

  • Geographisches Institute, Humboldt University Unter den Linden, 10099 Berlin, Germany

    Wilfried Endlicher

  • Humboldt University Miningstrasse 46, 12359 Berlin, Germany

    Ute Simon

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