Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach
暫譯: 理解城市生態學：跨學科系統方法

Hall, Myrna H. P., Balogh, Stephen B.

Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2019-04-25
  • 售價: $4,510
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,285
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 360
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3030112586
  • ISBN-13: 9783030112585

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Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach introduces students at the college undergraduate level, or those in advanced-standing college credit high school courses, to cities as ecosystems. For graduate students it provides an overview and rich literature base. Urban planners, educators, and decision makers can use this book to help in designing a more sustainable or "green" future. The authors use a systems approach to explore the complexity and interactions of different components of a city's ecology with an emphasis on the energy and materials required to maintain such concentrated centers of human activity and consumption. The book is written by seventeen specialized contributors and includes ten accompanying detailed field exercises to promote hands-on experience, observation, and quantification of urban ecosystem structure and function.The chapters describe one by one the different subsystems of the urban environment, their individual components and functions, and the interactions among them that create the social-ecological environments in which we live. The book's emphasis on social-ecological metabolism provides students with the knowledge and methods needed to evaluate proposed policies for urban sustainability in terms of ecosystem capacity, potential positive and negative feedbacks, the laws of thermo-dynamics, and socio-cultural perception and adaptability.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

全球超過一半的人口現在居住在城市地區。住在城市的人很少理解，城市也是生態系統，與自然生態系統一樣，遵循生態學的法則和原則。《理解城市生態學：跨學科系統方法》為大學本科生或修讀高級學分的高中生介紹城市作為生態系統的概念。對於研究生而言，這本書提供了概述和豐富的文獻基礎。城市規劃者、教育工作者和決策者可以利用這本書來幫助設計更可持續或“綠色”的未來。作者採用系統方法來探討城市生態的不同組成部分的複雜性和相互作用，特別強調維持這些人類活動和消費集中中心所需的能量和材料。這本書由十七位專業貢獻者撰寫，並包含十個詳細的實地練習，以促進對城市生態系統結構和功能的實踐經驗、觀察和量化。各章節逐一描述城市環境的不同子系統、它們的個別組成部分和功能，以及它們之間的相互作用，這些相互作用創造了我們生活的社會生態環境。這本書對社會生態代謝的強調，為學生提供了評估城市可持續性提案政策所需的知識和方法，考量生態系統的容量、潛在的正面和負面反饋、熱力學法則，以及社會文化的感知和適應能力。

作者簡介

Myrna H. P. Hall (Ed.) is Professor Emerita of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science in Syracuse, NY, where she helped establish the College's Urban Initiative in 2001, was Director of the SUNY ESF Center for the Urban Environment, coordinated the College's Urban Environmental Science Minor, and worked with an interdisciplinary team of faculty members to design an urban ecology course which she taught for 12 years before retiring. As a spatial ecologist, her research and publications have focused on environmental alteration from human activities, including urban/suburban sprawl effects on water quality in the New York City Catskill-Delaware watersheds, ecosystem impacts of glacier loss in Glacier National Park, and the impact of alternative urban green infrastructure implementation on urban energy budgets. She has done extensive land use change modeling in Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia, and Belize to estimate carbon benefits of avoided deforestation. Her interests span urban ecology and architecture, geographic information systems, and land change modeling.
Stephen Balogh earned his doctorate from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the US EPA Office of Research and Development in the Atlantic Ecology Division. He is an environmental scientist who studies communities and their connections to the environment across global, regional and local scales - including nutrient issues, ecosystem services, energy and material flows, and restoration. He has collaborated with other scientists, academics, and stakeholders on a broad range of interdisciplinary research. These projects range in scale from regional optimization of nitrogen removal interventions in Cape Cod to neighborhood scale analyses of ecosystem services and material and energy flows resulting from restoration efforts and population dynamics in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to his current position, he worked as a visiting assistant professor at SUNY-ESF and adjunct at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, where he taught courses about urban ecology, renewable energy, and sustainable business strategies. His PhD dissertation is entitled "Feeding and Fueling the Cities of the 21st Century." He has published eleven papers and several book chapters on the nexus of the environment, energy, and the economy.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Myrna H. P. Hall（編輯）是紐約州立大學環境科學學院的環境研究名譽教授，位於紐約州雪城。她於2001年協助建立該學院的城市倡議，曾擔任SUNY ESF城市環境中心的主任，協調學院的城市環境科學輔修課程，並與跨學科的教職員團隊合作設計城市生態課程，該課程她教授了12年後退休。作為一名空間生態學家，她的研究和出版物專注於人類活動對環境的改變，包括城市/郊區擴張對紐約市喀斯基爾-德拉瓦水系水質的影響、冰川國家公園冰川消失對生態系統的影響，以及替代城市綠色基礎設施實施對城市能源預算的影響。她在巴西、墨西哥、玻利維亞和貝里斯進行了廣泛的土地使用變化建模，以估算避免森林砍伐的碳效益。她的興趣涵蓋城市生態學與建築、地理資訊系統以及土地變化建模。

Stephen Balogh在SUNY環境科學與林業學院獲得博士學位。他目前在美國環保署研究與發展辦公室的亞特蘭大生態部門擔任博士後研究員。他是一名環境科學家，研究社區及其與環境的聯繫，涵蓋全球、區域和地方的尺度，包括營養問題、生態系統服務、能源和物質流動以及修復。他與其他科學家、學者和利益相關者合作進行廣泛的跨學科研究。這些項目的規模從在科德角的氮去除干預的區域優化到波多黎各聖胡安的社區規模生態系統服務及修復努力和人口動態所產生的物質和能源流動分析。在目前的職位之前，他曾在SUNY-ESF擔任訪問助理教授，並在雪城大學的惠特曼管理學院擔任兼任教授，教授有關城市生態學、可再生能源和可持續商業策略的課程。他的博士論文題為《為21世紀的城市提供食物和能源》。他已發表十一篇論文和幾個書章，探討環境、能源和經濟之間的聯繫。

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