What Is a[n Urban] Watershed?
Watershed are urban features Watersheds in Baltimore Watersheds are important parts of both wild and civilized places. In both city and countryside, watersheds express the flow of water, with its […]
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Ecosystem as Place; Ecosystem as Network
The most frequently cited definition of the ecosystem concept owes its origin to Sir Arthur G. Tansley in 1935 (Pickett and Grove 2009). It has proven to be a very […]
The Science of Connection in a Disconnected Place
The news from Baltimore has been sad and disturbing over the past few weeks. Urban ecologists, like all ecologists, I think, love the places where they work. So I must […]
The Kind of Solution A City Is
A while ago I wrote about Jane Jacobs’ insight that cities were complex systems[i]. The stone that she dropped in the urban pond in 1961 has rippled widely, and the […]
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