Understanding Urban Ecosystems

Understanding Urban Ecosystems :

A New Frontier for Science and Education

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Ecological Engineering Design

Ecological Engineering Design :

Restoring and Conserving Ecosystem Services

352 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB

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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: 

Principles and Practices 

 PDF | 296 pages | 2,9 mb

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Ecological Engineering Design

Ecological Engineering Design :

Restoring and Conserving Ecosystem Services

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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems : Principles and Practices 

By Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings

Publisher: Island Press | 2008 | PDF | 296 pages | 2,9 mb

Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries.

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and how cities themselves can be planned with nature’s organizing principles in mind. Taking cues from living systems for sustainability strategies, Newman and Jennings reassess urban design by exploring flows of energy, materials, and information, along with the interactions between human and non-human parts of the system.

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Ecological Engineering Design

"Ecological Engineering Design : Restoring and Conserving Ecosystem Services"
Marty D. Matlock, Robert A. Morgan, 

 2011 | 352 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB

Ecologically-sensitive building and landscape design is a broad, intrinsically interdisciplinary field. Existing books independently cover narrow aspects of ecological design in depth (hydrology, ecosystems, soils, flora and fauna, etc.), but none of these books can boast of the integrated approach taken by this one. Drawing on the experience of the authors, this book begins to define explicit design methods for integrating consideration of ecosystem processes and services into every facet of land use design, management, and policy. The approach is to provide a prescriptive approach to ecosystem design based upon ecological engineering principles and practices. This book will include a novel collection of design methods for the non-built and built environments, linking landscape design explicitly to ecosystem services.

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