Urban biodiversity : from research to practice / edited by Alessandro Ossola and Jari Niemelä
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 259 pages ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Ossola, Alessandro and Niemelä, Jari
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Bringing urban biodiversity research into practice / Jari Niemela -- 2.Soil as a foundation to urban biodiversity / Richard Pouyat -- 3.Urban biodiversity and ecosystem services / Erik Gomez-Baggethun -- 4.Planning for protection: promoting pest suppressing urban landscapes through habitat management / Caragh G. Threlfall -- 5.Urban agriculture: an opportunity for biodiversity and food provision in urban landscapes / Monika H. Egerer -- 6.Urban biological invasions: when vertebrates come to town / Adriano Martinoli -- 7.Management of plant diversity in urban green spaces / Clara C. Pregitzer -- 8.Managing biodiversity through social values and preferences / Dave Kendal -- 9.Biodiversity and psychological well-being / Eleanor Ratcliffe -- 10.Governance perspectives on urban biodiversity / Sara Borgstrom -- 11.Managing urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation: an African perspective / Elandrie Davoren -- 12.Urban green infrastructures and ecological networks for urban biodiversity conservation / Alexis Dyan Smith -- 13.Designing nature in cities to safeguard meaningful experiences of biodiversity in an urbanizing world / Assaf Shwartz -- 14.Biodiversity-friendly designs in cities and towns: towards a global biodiversinesque style / Maria Ignatieva -- 15.Integrating urban biodiversity mapping, citizen science and technology / Sonia Reyes Paecke.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781138224384 hardback
1138224383 hardback
9781138224391 paperback
1138224391 paperback - Note
- "Earthscan from Routledge"--Front cover.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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