Why is Urban Sustainability so Hard? The Trap of the Sanitary City
A few months ago, I was having a lively discussion with some serious and dedicated undergraduates at a university I was visiting. The fact that they were disappointed with their […]
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Why Do Urban Ecology?
The ecological science of understanding the structure, workings, and change of urban places has three main reasons to be (raisons d’être, if you prefer the French). One is the fact […]
Ecology Of the City is Twenty Years Old
The phrase “ecology ofthe city” was introduced in 1997 as a simple rhetorical device to highlight the novelty of the approach to urban ecology adopted in the initial proposal for […]
Outcomes of an Urban Sustainability Research Network
From 2011 through 2017, the National Science Foundation (NSF) supported a collaborative research project on “Urban Sustainability: Research Coordination and Synthesis for a Transformative Future.” This project was jointly organized […]
The Baltimore Ecosystem Study has been a National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site since 1998. Visit other LTER sites.
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