Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context

M Vaarst, AG Escudero, MJ Chappell… - … and Sustainable Food …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Based on urgent needs for food security compounded by a changing climate which impacts
and is impacted by agricultural land-use and food distribution practices, we explore the …

Spatial planning for multifunctional green infrastructure: Growing resilience in Detroit

S Meerow, JP Newell - Landscape and urban planning, 2017 - Elsevier
Cities are expanding green infrastructure to enhance resilience and ecosystem services.
Although green infrastructure is promoted for its multifunctionality, projects are typically sited …

[HTML][HTML] Asset or liability? Ecological and sociological tradeoffs of urban spontaneous vegetation on vacant land in shrinking cities

CB Riley, KI Perry, K Ard, MM Gardiner - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The increase of minimally managed vacant land resulting from population loss and the
subsequent removal of infrastructure is a reoccurring feature in shrinking cities around the …

[PDF][PDF] Beyond city expansion: multi-scale environmental impacts of urban megaregion formation in China

W Zhou, W Yu, Y Qian, L Han, STA Pickett… - National Science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Environmental degradation caused by rapid urbanization is a pressing global issue.
However, little is known about how urban changes operate and affect environments across …

[HTML][HTML] Global changes in urban vegetation cover

DR Richards, RN Belcher - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Urban vegetation provides many ecosystem services that make cities more liveable for
people. As the world continues to urbanise, the vegetation cover in urban areas is changing …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the distributional equity of urban tree canopy cover and ecosystem services across United States cities

CB Riley, MM Gardiner - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Examining the distributional equity of urban tree canopy cover (UTCC) has increasingly
become an important interdisciplinary focus of ecologists and social scientists working within …

The antagonistic effect of urban growth pattern and shrinking cities on air quality: Based on the empirical analysis of 174 cities in China

Y Rao, C Wu, Q He - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Air pollution is an important issue facing the sustainable development of cities. In the context
of rapid urbanization in China, a considerable number of cities show the coexistence of …

[图书][B] The global casino: an introduction to environmental issues

N Middleton - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the
workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks …

[HTML][HTML] Mediating sustainability and liveability—Turning points of green space supply in European cities

M Wolff, D Haase - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Urban growth in and around European cities affects multiple aspects of the environment
including green spaces. On the one hand, many cities struggle with environmental …

[图书][B] The Routledge handbook of urban ecology

I Douglas, D Goode, M Houck, R Wang - 2011 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Names: Douglas, Ian, 1936–editor.| Routledge (Firm) Title: The Routledge handbook of
urban ecology/edited by Ian Douglas, Pippin Anderson, David Goode, Michael C. Houck …