Urban Ecology HAS Changed
A Perspective on Points from Ramalho and Hobbs, As Reported by the BBC on 6 December 2011 A news report by the BBC on an article critical of urban ecology […]
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Post-Industrial Baltimore
Baltimore is often called a “post-industrial” urban region. What set of cultural and theoretical assumptions does this label invoke? The industrial and post-industrial tag emerges from the Modernist program and […]
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 […]
Natural Experiments of History
The title of this essay is the same as a book edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, published in 2010 by Harvard University Press. The book explores the […]
Interest in Urban Resilience: A Burgeoning Frontier
Resilience is becoming an increasingly important concept in contemporary ecological science. Since the introduction of the resilience cycle, an open ended, ecological concept has guided the understanding of this important […]
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