Urban Ecology: Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems (Paperback)

Theme 1: Emerging facets of urban ecology ? urban and urbanization, theory and concepts 1. Urban ecology ? Current state of research and concepts 2. Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers, and the research agenda ahead

Theme 2: Urban Land Use Land Cover 3. Urban growth pattern detection and analysis 4. Exposition of spatial urban growth pattern and its effects on surface temperature

Theme 3: Social ecological systems 5. Socio-economic stressors of disasters on urban ecology in India 6. Ecological economics of an urban settlement: an overview 7. Urban greenspace, social equity and human well-being

Theme 4: Urban Environment 8. Urbanization, urban agriculture and food security 9. Carbon reduction strategies for the built environment in a tropical city 10. Trends in active and sustainable mobility: a comparison between cycling cultures of Dhaka and Innsbruck 11. Air quality and its impact on urban Environment 12. Sustainable water management in megacities of the future 13. Comparing invasive alien plant community composition between urban, peri-urban and rural areas; the City of Cape Town as a case study

Theme 5: Anthropological material balance 14. Types, sources and management of urban wastes 15. Nutrient recovery from the municipal waste stream: Status and prospects

Theme 6: Cities: Healthy, smart and sustainable 16. Urban ecology and human health: Implications of urban heat island, air pollution and climate change nexus 17. Sustainable cities ? monitoring and management 18. Challenges in assessing urban sustainability

Theme 7: Sustainable urban design 19. Towards Sustainable Urban Redevelopment: Urban Design Informed by Morphological Patterns and Ecologies of Informal Settlements in Cities 20. Assessing the role of urban design in a rapidly urbanizing historical city and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India 21. Green building movement in Urban India 22. Critical assessment, challenges and future dimensions for the urban ecological systems 23. Challenges and innovations of transportation and collection of waste 24. Soil Carbon Efflux in Urban Ecosystems