Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing

Z Zhu, Y Zhou, KC Seto, EC Stokes, C Deng… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Scientific contributions from remote sensing over the last fifty years have significantly
advanced our understanding of urban areas. Key contributions of urban remote sensing …

What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning

ZJ Grabowski, T McPhearson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In response to interdependent challenges, city planners are increasingly adopting “green
infrastructure”(GI). Reviewing 122 plans from 20 US cities, we identify what types of city …

A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services

T McPhearson, EM Cook, M Berbés-Blázquez… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
As rates of urbanization and climatic change soar, decision-makers are increasingly
challenged to provide innovative solutions that simultaneously address climate change …

Biodiversity in the city: fundamental questions for understanding the ecology of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation

CA Lepczyk, MFJ Aronson, KL Evans, MA Goddard… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
As urban areas expand, understanding how ecological processes function in cities has
become increasingly important for conserving biodiversity. Urban green spaces are critical …

Coupling coordinated development between social economy and ecological environment in Chinese provincial capital cities-assessment and policy implications

Y Fan, C Fang, Q Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
The natural environmental degradation is specifically challenging in rapid urbanization
areas where social economic development needs to swallow large amounts of resources …

Urban resilience for whom, what, when, where, and why?

S Meerow, JP Newell - Urban geography, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In academic and policy discourse, the concept of urban resilience is proliferating. Social
theorists, especially human geographers, have rightfully criticized that the underlying politics …

Construction and optimization of green space ecological networks in urban fringe areas: A case study with the urban fringe area of Tongzhou district in Bei**g

L Cui, J Wang, L Sun, C Lv - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization has engendered increased fragmentation of urban green spaces
combined with declining green space connectivity. This situation is significant in urban fringe …

Study on the coordinated relationship between Urban Land use efficiency and ecosystem health in China

X **e, B Fang, H Xu, S He, X Li - Land use policy, 2021 - Elsevier
China needs not only high land use efficiency, but also a high-quality ecological
environment. Thus, clarifying interaction between land use efficiency and the ecosystem is …

Urban green spaces as a component of an ecosystem

JG Vargas-Hernández, K Pallagst… - Sustainable …, 2023 - Springer
This chapter is aimed at analyzing a review of the empirical literature on some important
features of urban green spaces such as the components, functions, services, community …

Advancing urban ecology toward a science of cities

T McPhearson, STA Pickett, NB Grimm, J Niemelä… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Urban ecology is a field encompassing multiple disciplines and practical applications and
has grown rapidly. However, the field is heterogeneous as a global inquiry with multiple …