As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there
remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes …

Residential gardens are a principal component of urban green infrastructure throughout the
world and their potential positive contributions to biodiversity are increasingly recognised …

Cities are experiencing numerous challenges, adversely affecting human health and
wellbeing. Urban green space provides ecosystem services that are important to meet urban …

This paper addresses the impact that changes in natural ecosystems can have on health
and wellbeing focusing on the potential co-benefits that green spaces could provide when …

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 …

Flood protection is one of the traditional functions of any drainage system, and it remains a
major issue in many cities because of economic and health impact. Heavy rain flooding has …

The combination of climate change and urbanization projected to occur until 2050 poses
new challenges for land-use planning, not least in terms of reducing urban vulnerability to …

Climate change has severely impacted southern African vegetation over the last decades.
Recent studies have shown that limiting the global warming level to well below 2° C above …

The UK 2007 floods resulted in damages estimated to exceed over£ 4 billion. This triggered
a national review of strategic flood risk management (Pitt, 2008) with its recommendations …

Impervious surface is an important factor for the ecological performance of the built
environment, in particular for the water balance. Therefore, the rainwater drainage …