Previous original research focused on wetland loss and finding out its drivers across
different regional units of the world. A few reports also tried to account world's condition on …

Reconciling human and non-human use of urban regions to support biological conservation
represents a major challenge for the 21st century. The concept of reconciliation ecology, by …

The long-term urban dynamics at regional and global scales is essential to understanding
the urbanization processes and environmental consequences for providing better scientific …

Identifying the driving mechanisms and forces of urban expansion is an important step
toward better understanding of the spatial pattern, process, and consequences of urban …

Urban forest fragments are highly multifunctional and provide many ecosystem services to
people. However, the expansion and densification of cities is threatening this particular type …

Understanding the influence mechanism of ecosystem services will provide useful guides for
practical ecological management. However, existing findings of the key factors affecting …

Global increases in the magnitude and frequency of flood events have raised concerns that
traditional flood management approaches may not be sufficient to deal with future …

Urbanization will place significant pressures on biodiversity across the world. However,
there are large uncertainties in the amount and location of future urbanization, particularly …

Urbanization is intensifying worldwide, with two-thirds of the human population expected to
reside in cities within 30 years. The role of cities in human infectious disease is well …

This volume is based on the argument that, just as it is no longer possible to construct sound
ecological science without explicit attention to urbanization as a key driver of global …