The Conception, Design and Implementation of An Ecosystem Approach to Urban Habitat Conservation Planning
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 192
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Interests: Urban regional policy and planning, based on smart growth and green infrastructure principles; The design and implementation of environmental policies supporting urban habitat conservation planning, urban forestry, native vegetation, impervious surface management and heat island mitigation based on the principles of urban ecology and ecosystem resilience; Campus sustainability planning based on integrative approaches to curriculum reorganization, multidisciplinary research, and stakeholder-based community activism; Participatory community-based environmentally oriented sustainability policy and planning research
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Dear Colleagues,
For ecological conservation to become an ethos, a modality, it must manifest itself everywhere, not just in pristine wilderness. And for Nature Conservation to be pervasive and prevalent, it must certainly show itself wherever Nature shows itself. Besides, the Anthropocene is here, and it is Urban. Yes, Nature in Wilderness matters, but so does Nature in our Cities. There are at least two reasons why we should care about urban habitat conservation—first, because biodiversity does not stop as it gets to the boundaries of a City; and second, because Nature, as it does manifest itself in our Cities, can be quite unique and precious in its own right.
This collection of papers intends to promote the view that habitat conservation belongs as strongly within the Urban domain as it does across any region where Nature manifests itself. A key meme that is intended to be reinforced here is that humans and their artifactuals are best seen as components of ecosystems, rather than be considered apart from them. A second meme that needs to be reinforced here is the notion that our world—the humanized world—is best seen as a manifestation of processes and functions, rather than as a conglomeration of objects and entities.
Contributed papers will focus on the diverse interfaces between Urban phenomena and the processes and functions that more fully integrate our Cities with Nature.
Dr. Ashwani Vasishth
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban habitat conservation
- ecosystem approach
- process-function ecology
- scale-hierarchic ecology
- wildlife conservation
- urban ecology
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