The annual increases in global energy consumption, along with its environmental issues
and concerns, are playing significant roles in the massive sustainable and renewable global …

Fostering resilience in the face of environmental, socioeconomic, and political uncertainty
and risk has captured the attention of academics and decision makers across disciplines …

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 …

As urbanization continues to expand across the globe, urban wildlife research is critical for
urban planners and conservation practitioners to create livable cities for both humans and …

Ecosystems and landscapes around the world have become increasingly domesticated
through urbanization. Cities have been the engines of socioeconomic development but also …

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 …

The sustainable development of cities is increasingly recognized as crucial to meeting
collectively agreed sustainability goals at local, regional and global scales, and more …

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human–environment relations,
and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power? Is resilience a …

In recent years, several types of simulation and prediction models have been used within a
GIS environment to determine a realistic future for urban growth patterns. These models …

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 …