Asphalt: Evolving Urban Boundary Object
Asphalt. What could be more pedestrian, literally underfoot? Or ignored as a dull gray ribbon somewhere beneath the floorboards as one navigates along city streets, concentrating on one’s destination? Or […]
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Does Urbanization Stop?
A lot of effort in urban ecological science around the world is now focused on the process of urbanization. This is reasonable because the demographic, social, environmental, and economic shifts […]
The Year of Adaptive Processes
The new theme for research in BES emphasizes adaptive processes as a key to understanding and working with urban sustainability. Because of its importance, the intellectual theme for BES this […]
Press-Pulse Dynamics: A Hypothetical Feedback Model for Long-Term Social-Ecological Research
An important conceptual resource for BES III has recently appeared online. This publication presents the feedback cycle between social and ecological structures and functions as mediated by ecosystem services and […]
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