"Explores the environment's effects on human wellbeing and behaviour, factors influencing environmental behaviour and ways of encouraging pro-environmental action."
"Explores the environment's effects on human wellbeing and behaviour, factors influencing environmental behaviour and ways of encouraging pro-environmental action"--
From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only …
"Understanding Soils in Urban Environments explains how urban soils develop, change and erode. It describes their physical and chemical properties and focuses on specific soil problems, such as acid sulfate soils, that can cause environmental concern and also affect engineering …
"Towns and cities face increasing pressure to undertake development initiatives that are sustainable at the same time that more and more services are being downloaded to the municipal level. Caught in this trap between rising expectations on the one hand and increasing costs on …
"Towns and cities face increasing pressure to undertake development initiatives that are sustainable at the same time that more and more services are being downloaded to the municipal level. Caught in this trap between rising expectations on the one hand and increasing costs on …
Urban ecology: patterns, processes, and applications
Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns proceeds sustainably. Urban ecology, the interdisciplinary study of ecological patterns and process…
"Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is, therefore, crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns proceeds sustainably. Urban ecology, the interdisciplinary study of ecological patterns and proc…
This book integrates human and natural systems through a network of corridors and spaces in mixed-use and urban settings. The author takes a broad look at green infrastructure concepts, research and case studies to provide the student and professional with processes, criteria an…
A companion to Urban Pest Management, this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies that look beyond products. From an environmental and health perspective, it is not always practical to spray chemicals indoors or in urban setting…
This book explores the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climat…