Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Good, bad, and interesting patterns in urban regions 311 Built areas surround many streams and rivers.San Diego/Tijuana, Philade ...
312 Gathering the pieces Threat of landslides.Ankara, Caracas, Hong Kong, San Salvador (El Salvador) Uncertainty near major migr ...
Good, bad, and interesting patterns in urban regions 313 Abundance of small, linear greenspaces in metro area.San Diego/Tijuana, ...
314 Gathering the pieces Extensive canal irrigation system.Bangkok, Cairo, Fresno (USA) Aquaculture areas in proximity, as sourc ...
12 12 Big pictures If I lived in a romantic castle atop a mountain, periodically I would charge around flinging open windows to ...
316Big pictures The third topic, the dreaded overnight catastrophe of particular importance to urban regions, pinpoints disrupti ...
Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters 317 in previous chapters, is expanding outward and is thoroughly affected by in- ...
318Big pictures be densely peppered with parks and greenspace corridors (Jacobs 1961, Cityspace 1998), so non-urban species can ...
Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters 319 Athird approach for urban sustainability highlights a city’s ‘‘prime foot- p ...
320 Big pictures oil pipelines, powerlines, telephone lines, water pipelines, sewer lines, rail- roads, and roads/highways -- pa ...
Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters 321 or minutes. Utility lines rupture, houses fall, mid-rise buildings collapse, ...
322 Big pictures Figure 12.1Flood caused by extensive loss of natural vegetation. Without nature’s absorptive capacity, water fr ...
Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters 323 surge could have been reduced 4.7 cm for each kilometer of marsh in front of ...
324 Big pictures Much of the debris from the exploded power plant was buried nearby, especially in a floodplain where groundwate ...
Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity Thecheckereddonutcould get more interesting and useful by adding other sorts ...
326 Big pictures explore some promising responses for urban regions and their natural systems to the varied climate-change effec ...
Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity 327 Figure 12.2Koala, a rare species feeding on eucalypt (gum tree) leaves th ...
328 Big pictures providing suitable locations for many or most terrestrial species to live. As climate warms or cools, species m ...
Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity 329 Extensive redistributions of urban populations also provide the opportuni ...
330 Big pictures Human activities in the past century have caused the extinction rate to sky- rocket. Although the effects of sp ...
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