Urban Ecology: Science of Cities (Forman Richard T. T.)(Paperback)

Urban Ecology: Science of Cities (Forman Richard T. T.)(Paperback)

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban

Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation (Lepczyk Christopher A.)(Paperback)

Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation is the first practical and comprehensive manual for creating, implementing, or improving natural science research and monitoring projects that involve collaboration between scientists and the general public. As citizen science projects become

Foundations of Restoration Ecology (Palmer Margaret A.)(Paperback)

The practice of ecological restoration, firmly grounded in the science of restoration ecology, provides governments, organizations, and landowners a means to halt degradation and restore function and resilience to ecosystems stressed by climate change and other pressures on the natural world

Making Ancient Cities (Creekmore Andrew T. III)(Paperback)

This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the

Bible and Ecology - Rediscovering the Community of Creation (Bauckham Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Urban Climates (Oke T. R.)(Paperback)

Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Newitz Annalee)(Pevná vazba)

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a

Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics (Jon Ihnji)(Paperback)

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern them. Taking action 'for the environment' is not only a moral imperative; instead, it is activated by

Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems (Bettencourt Luis M. a.)(Pevná vazba)

A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. In Introduction to Urban Science, Luis Bettencourt takes a novel,

The Rise of the Creative Class (Florida Richard)(Paperback)

World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the

Trilobite! (Fortey Richard)(Paperback / softback)

'In Richard Fortey's capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic - a remarkable and fascinating book.' SIMON

The Nature of Gods (Lockwood T. J.)(Paperback)

BEFORE CITIES ROSE, COUNTRIES FELL, AND THE WORLD WAS FORCED TO START OVER AGAIN...In a time of peace and prosperity, the world has come to terms with the powers that rule. Twelve Generals with a common origin guide humanity towards a future away from war and needless conquest. Their desire to live

Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library) (Wilkinson David)(Paperback)

Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain's ecosystems to illustrate each point.The science of ecology underlies most of the key

Animal Population Ecology: An Analytical Approach (Royama T.)(Paperback)

Comprises ten selected topics as chapters. Each of these focuses on the subject that is, despite its fundamental importance, still inadequately understood or even misunderstood in the current ecology. A must-have for advanced students of ecology, established ecologists, as well as mathematicians

Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Williams Richard J.)(Paperback)

We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way ordinary citizens interact with them? What

Science Comics: Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean (Wicks Maris)(Paperback)

Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader

Secret Cities of Old South America (Wilkins Harold T.)(Paperback)

Monstrous beasts, lost worlds, vanished civilizations, Amazon warriors, even Atlantis and Noah s ark figure in this wondrous and rare book. Hard to find in print before now, this obscure 1952 work is an artifact itself, of the postwar fascination with all things mysterious, from flying saucers to

Science in the Soul - Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist (Dawkins Richard (Oxford University))(Paperback / softback)

Conservation of Wildlife Popul (Mills L. Scott)(Paperback)

Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science withastonishing potential for contributing solutions to wildlifeconservation and management challenges. And yet, much of theapplied power of wildlife population ecology remains untappedbecause its broad sweep across disparate subfields has

The New Science of Cities (Batty Michael)(Paperback)

A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To

Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies (Ernstson Henrik)(Paperback)

Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments.The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as 'smart cities,' 'eco-cities,' and 'resilience,' and proposing a 'science

Urban Revitalization: Remaking Cities in a Changing World (Grodach Carl)(Paperback)

Following decades of neglect and decline, many US cities have undergone a dramatic renaissance. From New York to Nashville and Pittsburgh to Portland governments have implemented innovative redevelopment strategies to adapt to a globally integrated, post-industrial economy and cope with declining

General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm (Hrl Erich)(Paperback)

Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognized that there are ecologies of mind, information,

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Jaynes E. T.)(Pevná vazba)