TY  - BOOK
TI  - Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities: A Global Assessment
SN  - 978-94-007-7088-1
PY  - 2013///
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Applied mathematics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Ecological science, the Biosphere
KW  - Interdisciplinary studies
KW  - Public international law: environment
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Urban and municipal planning and policy
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Challenges
KW  - Complex Systems
KW  - Ecosystem services
KW  - Environmental Social Sciences
KW  - Humanities and Social Sciences
KW  - International Environmental Law
KW  - Opportunities
KW  - Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
KW  - Sustainable Development
KW  - Urban & municipal planning
KW  - Urban Ecology
KW  - Urban Geography and Urbanism
KW  - Urbanism
KW  - Urbanization
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions: Urban areas are expanding faster than urban populations. Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecosystem health, and biodiversity Urban expansion will heavily draw on natural resources, including water, on a global scale, and will often consume prime agricultural land, with knock-on effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services elsewhere Future urban expansion will often occur in areas where the capacity for formal governance is restricted, which will constrain the protection of biodiversity and management of ecosystem services
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71314
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50063/1/978-94-007-7088-1.pdf
ER  -