Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material
demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and …

Urbanization, an important driver of climate change and pollution, alters both biotic and
abiotic ecosystem properties within, surrounding, and even at great distances from urban …

Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations
respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of …

Contemporary cities are expanding rapidly in a spatially complex, non-linear manner.
However, this form of expansion is rarely taken into account in the way that urbanization is …

Residential landscapes are a common setting of human-environment interactions. These
ubiquitous ecosystems provide social and ecological services, and yard maintenance leads …

Global flows of reactive nitrogen (N) have increased significantly over the last century in
response to agricultural intensification and elevated levels of atmospheric deposition …

The role of humans in the restoration of ecosystems has been emphasised since its
inception. The human dimension of restoration is particularly well established in urban …

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 …

Current and predicted trends indicate that an increasing proportion of the world's population
is living in urban and suburban places. The nature of the urban environment becomes an …

The concentration of materials and energy within cities is an inevitable consequence of
dense populations and their per capita requirements for food, fiber, and fuel. As the world …