Examining the distributional equity of urban tree canopy cover (UTCC) has increasingly
become an important interdisciplinary focus of ecologists and social scientists working within …

Brownfield site redevelopment presents an opportunity to create urban green spaces that
provide a wide range of ecosystem services. It is important, therefore, to understand which …

This article outlines the political economy critiques of the shrinking cities literature by
answering the following:(1) how does the “shrinking cities” canon define a categorically …

Urban vegetation can generate social and ecological benefits, so vegetation abundance is
commonly treated as a proxy for greater benefits. A repeated finding in environmental justice …

Management frequently creates system conditions that poorly mimic the conditions of a
desirable self-organizing regime. Such management is ubiquitous across complex systems …

Urban development has driven extensive modification of the global landscape. This shift in
land use and land cover alters ecological functioning, and thereby affects sustainable …

Community assembly is the process by which local communities are organized and
maintained from the regional species pool. Understanding processes of insect assembly are …

Urban shrinkage has become a widespread phenomenon in contemporary urbanisation.
Shrinking cities present multiple shrinkage-connected problems, where the most acute ones …

This chapter suggests that understanding the complex relationships between patterns of
urban development and the processes that maintain ecosystem function and resilience …

Rapid urbanization coupled with increased human influence induces pressures that affect
predator-prey relations through a suite of behavioral mechanisms, including alteration of …