Urbanization Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Challenges and Opportunities A Global Assessment 1st Edition by Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J Marcotullio ISBN 9400770871 978-9400770874

Urbanization Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Challenges and Opportunities A Global Assessment 1st Edition by  Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson  – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9400770871, 978-9400770874

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ISBN 10: 9400770871 

ISBN 13: 978-9400770874

Author:   Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson 

Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:

1. Urban areas are expanding faster than urban populations. Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China
2. Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecosystem health, and biodiversity
3. Urban expansion will heavily draw on natural resources, including water, on a global scale, and will often consume prime agricultural land, with knock-on effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services elsewhere
4. Future urban expansion will often occur in areas where the capacity for formal governance is restricted, which will constrain the protection of biodiversity and management of ecosystem services

Table of contents: 

1. A Global Outlook on Urbanization

2. History of Urbanization and the Missing Ecology

3. Urbanization and Global Trends in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

4. Regional Assessment of Asia

5. Sub-regional Assessment of China: Urbanization in Biodiversity Hotspots

6. Sub-regional Assessment of India: Effects of Urbanization on Land Use, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

7. Local Assessment of Bangalore: Graying and Greening in Bangalore – Impacts of Urbanization on Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

8. Local Assessment of Tokyo: Satoyama and Satoumi – Traditional Landscapes and Management Practices in a Contemporary Urban Environment

9. Local Assessment of Shanghai: Effects of Urbanization on the Diversity of Macrobenthic Invertebrates

10. Patterns and Trends in Urban Biodiversity and Landscape Design

11. Urban Ecosystem Services

12. Shrinking Cities, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

13. Regional Assessment of Europe

14. Regional Assessment of North America: Urbanization Trends, Biodiversity Patterns, and Ecosystem Services

15. Regional Assessment of Oceania

16. Local Assessment of İstanbul: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

17. Local Assessment of Stockholm: Revisiting the Stockholm Urban Assessment

18. Local Assessment of Chicago: From Wild Chicago to Chicago Wilderness – Chicago’s Ecological Setting and Recent Efforts to Protect and Restore Nature in the Region

19. Local Assessment of New York City: Biodiversity, Green Space, and Ecosystem Services

20. Local Assessment of Melbourne: The Biodiversity and Social-Ecological Dynamics of Melbourne, Australia

21. A Synthesis of Global Urbanization Projections

22. Urbanization Forecasts, Effects on Land Use, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services

23. Regional Assessment of Africa

24. Local Assessment of Cape Town: Navigating the Management Complexities of Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services in the Cape Floristic Region

25. Climate Change and Urban Biodiversity Vulnerability

26. Feeding Cities: Food Security and Ecosystem Support in an Urbanizing World

27. Urban Governance of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

28. Regional Assessment of Latin America: Rapid Urban Development and Social Economic Inequity Threaten Biodiversity Hotspots

29. Local Assessment of Rio de Janeiro City: Two Case Studies of Urbanization Trends and Ecological Impacts

30. Urban Landscapes as Learning Arenas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Management

31. Restoration Ecology in an Urbanizing World

32. Indicators for Management of Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: City Biodiversity Index

33. Stewardship of the Biosphere in the Urban Era

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