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Ecology --- Ecologia --- Ecology. --- Revistes. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology

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Ecology --- Biology --- Biology. --- Ecology. --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Life sciences --- Biomass --- Life (Biology) --- Natural history --- Life Sciences

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This systematic assessment of seven prominent initiatives - in Texas, California, Florida and Arizona - evaluates the effectiveness of ecosystem-based management at protecting the environment. The author concludes that projects that set goals based on stakeholder collaboration are less likely to result in environmental improvement.

Ecosystem management. --- Ecology. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Biotic communities --- Ecosystems management --- Ecology --- Management --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Applied ecology --- Environmental management --- Nature conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- ENVIRONMENT/General

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The future of Earth’s ecosystems is increasingly influenced by the pace and patterns of urbanization. One of the greatest challenges for natural and social scientists is to understand how urbanizing regions evolve through the complex interactions between humans and ecological processes. Questions and methods of inquiry specific to our traditional disciplinary domains yield partial views that reflect different epistemologies and understandings of the world. In order to achieve the level of synthesis required to see the urban ecosystem as a whole we must change the way we pose questions and search for answers. Cities are the result of human and ecological processes occurring simultaneously in time and in space and the legacy of the simultaneous processes of the past. Urban ecology is the study of the co-evolution of human-ecological systems. Scholars of both urban systems and ecology must challenge the assumptions and world views within their disciplines and work towards a hybrid theory that builds on multiple world views. The synthesis of research findings provided in this book is a first step towards articulating the challenge for scholars of urban ecosystems; it leads the way toward the integration we must achieve if we are to better understand and solve emerging issues in urban ecosystems. Marina Alberti is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning and Director of the Urban Ecology Research Lab (http://www.urbaneco.washington.edu/) at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Cities and towns --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Environmental aspects --- Urban Ecology. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environment, general. --- Environmental science --- Science --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Environment. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology

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Ecology --- Natural resources --- Ecology. --- Natural resources. --- Latin America. --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Economic aspects --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- sustainability --- energy --- urban ecology --- ecological economy --- political ecology --- socio-environmental studies --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology