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 …

Urban tree canopy has greater cooling effects in socially vulnerable communities in the US

W Zhou, G Huang, STA Pickett, J Wang… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Cities are home to around half of the global population but face intensified and unevenly
distributed heat stresses. Trees are utilized to adapt to urban heat; however, most tree …

Evolution and future of urban ecological science: ecology in, of, and for the city

STA Pickett, ML Cadenasso, DL Childers… - Ecosystem health and …, 2016 - spj.science.org
The contrast between ecology in cities and ecology of cities has emphasized the increasing
scope of urban ecosystem research. Ecology in focuses on terrestrial and aquatic patches …

Global urbanization as a shifting context for applying ecological science toward the sustainable city

STA Pickett, W Zhou - Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2015 - spj.science.org
There is an abundance of conceptual frameworks relevant to sustainability in urban systems.
However, to advance urban ecological science and its application to sustainable urban …

On the suitability of a unified GIS-BIM-HBIM framework for cataloguing and assessing vulnerability in Historic Urban Landscapes: A critical review

R Ramírez Eudave, TM Ferreira - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The use of digital representations of physical objects allows to simulate phenomena and
predict behaviours. The representativeness of a model is based on the congruency between …

Advancing understanding of the complex nature of urban systems

T McPhearson, D Haase, N Kabisch, Å Gren - Ecological Indicators, 2016 - Elsevier
Cities and urbanized regions are complex, dynamic, and highly integrated systems linking
social, ecological, and technical infrastructure domains in ways that create deep challenges …

Urban expansion, sprawl and inequality

YD Wei, R Ewing - Landscape and urban planning, 2018 - Elsevier
According to the United Nations'(2014)'World Urbanization Prospects', the pace of
urbanization in the recent decades has been rapid, often doubling in size every decade; …

Shifting concepts of urban spatial heterogeneity and their implications for sustainability

W Zhou, STA Pickett, ML Cadenasso - Landscape ecology, 2017 - Springer
Context Spatial heterogeneity has myriad influences on ecosystem processes, ecosystem
services, and thus the sustainability of urban areas. It acts as a medium for urban design …

Urban sustainable development efficiency towards the balance between nature and human well-being: Connotation, measurement, and assessment

Y Yan, C Wang, Y Quan, G Wu, J Zhao - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Sustainable development requires that development patterns that meet the needs of the
present generation do not harm the needs of future generations. Sustainable development …

Does the ecological concept of disturbance have utility in urban social–ecological–technological systems?

NB Grimm, STA Pickett, RL Hale… - Ecosystem Health and …, 2017 - spj.science.org
The ecological concept of disturbance has scarcely been applied in urban systems except in
the erroneous but commonplace assumption that urbanization itself is a disturbance and …