Legacy cities are increasingly understood as drivers of various informal landscape patterns
and processes which arise from the conditions of economic contraction and neglect. This …

Soils of abandoned and vacant lands in the periphery of cities are frequently subjected to
illegal dumping and can undergo degradation processes such as depletion of organic …

Planning of green urban infrastructure is based on guidelines developed by experts and
official standards. Currently, however, there is insufficient understanding of the social …

Managing social-ecological systems toward desirable regimes requires learning about the
system being managed while preparing for many possible futures. Adaptive management …

Vacant land in legacy cities is increasingly recognized as a resource to support biodiversity
and improve the quality of life for residents. However, the capacity for vacant lot parcels to …

There has been mounting interest about how the repurposing of vacant land (VL) through
green infrastructure (the most common smart decline strategy) can reduce stormwater runoff …

Merging together the fields of urban ecology, environmental justice, and urban
environmental education, Urban Ecosystem Justice promotes building fair, accessible, and …

To analyze the characteristics, influencing factors, and microscopic mechanisms of county-
level city shrinkage, this paper uses a quantitative push-pull model to explore the shrinking …

Urbanization is a key contributor to biodiversity loss, but evidence is mounting that cities can
support rich arthropod communities, including rare and threatened species. Furthermore …

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