Screen LibraryUrban biodiversity and equity : justice-centered conservation in cities /
"Urbanization is simultaneously one of the most creative and destructive processes our planet has ever experienced. Developing rural areas into cities and suburbs results in dramatic habitat transformation, leading to significant biodiversity loss and modification. Yet, urban areas also have tr...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Urbanization is simultaneously one of the most creative and destructive processes our planet has ever experienced. Developing rural areas into cities and suburbs results in dramatic habitat transformation, leading to significant biodiversity loss and modification. Yet, urban areas also have tremendous conservation value. Biodiversity is in crisis and, rather than considering urbanization solely as a threat, there is an urgent need to transform urbanization into a tool for conservation. We move beyond a basic scientific understanding of urban ecosystems to detail how scientists, decision makers, and practitioners develop solutions to effectively manage urban biodiversity. Such efforts necessitate unravelling the complex components that bolster or constrain biodiversity including human-wildlife interactions, resource availability, novel species relationships, and environmental heterogeneity. However, key to an understanding of these processes is also recognizing the tremendous social variation within urban areas. The diversity of urban human communities fundamentally shapes how society designs, builds, and manages urban landscapes. This means that urban environmental management unavoidably must account for human social variation. Unfortunately, urban systems have a history and continued legacy of social inequality (e.g., systemic racism and classism) that govern how cities are both built and managed. This work not only highlights these connections, but also illustrates the interdisciplinary approaches needed for advancing a justice-centered approach to conservating biodiversity. Urban conservation is an imperative for reaching our regional and global conservation goals. Equity and justice are central to successful urban conservation and, by extension, conservation more broadly"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 290 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780198877288 0198877285 9780198877271 0198877277 |
| Index Number: | QH541 |
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Q16 C912.81 |
| Call Number: | C912.81/U722-12 |
| Contents: | Cities as the Solution to the Biodiversity Crisis / Max R. Lambert and Christopher J. Schell -- Section 1: Urban Nature's Social Fabric. Escaping the Practice of Exclusion: Conservation, Greenspace, and Urban Planning in the Age of Environmental Justice / Fushcia-Ann Hoover and Rachel Scarlett -- Human Motivations and Constraints in Urban Conservation / Kelli L. Larson and Jeffrey A. G. Brown -- Conservation on the Urban Fringe: Sustaining Biodiversity and Advancing Equity in Suburban Ecosystems / Liba Pejchar and Sarah E. Reed -- Portland's Conservation Organizations: Acknowledging Racial Inequity and Responding with Community-Informed Solutions / Laura Guderyahn and Mary Logalbo -- Section 2: Innovative Approaches for Understanding and Prioritizing Equitable Urban Conservation. The Role of Urban Tree Canopies in Environmental Justice and Conserving Biodiversity / Dexter H. Locke, J. Morgan Grove, and Steward T. A. Pickett -- Participatory Science for Equitable Urban Biodiversity Research and Practice / Deja J. Perkins, Lauren M. Nichols, and Robert R. Dunn -- Multi-City Ecological Networks for Addressing Urban Biodiversity / Seth Magle, Mason Fidino, Elizabeth W. Lehrer, Tobin Magle, and Myla F. J. Aronson -- Integrating Molecular Methods with a Social-Ecological Focus to Advance Urban Biodiversity Management / Kevin Avilés-Rodriguez, Kim Hughes, Jonathan L. Richardson, and Jason Munshi-South -- Urban Flagship Umbrella Species and Slender Lorises as an Example for Urban Conservation / Kaberi Kar Gupta, Madhusudan Khatti, Vidisha Kulkarni, Hari Prakash J. Ramesh, Harshitha C. Kumar, Kesang Bhutia, Soumya Kori, Rajeev Bacchu, and Arun P. Visweswaran -- Animal Behavior, Cognition, and Human-Wildlife Interactions in Urban Areas / Lauren A. Stanton, Christine Wilkinson, Lisa Angeloni, Sarah Benson-Amram, Christopher J. Schell, and Julie K. Young -- Section 3: Emergent Urban Planning and Management Frameworks for Addressing Societal and Conservation Goals. Urban Places Create Unique Health Spaces for Wildlife, People, and the Environment / Kaylee A. Byers, Maureen H. Murray, and Joanne E. Nelson -- Developing a Toolbox for Urban Biodiversity Conservation / Erica Spotswood, Max Lambert, Selena Pang, Jonathan Young, and Lewis Stringer --Making Nature's City: An Applied Science Framework to Guide Evaluation and Planning for Urban Biodiversity Conservation / Bronwen Stanford, Kelly Ikyanan, Robin Grossinger, Erin Beller, Mathew Benjamin, J. Letitia Grenier, Micaela Bazo, Nicole Heller, Myla F. J. Aronson, Alexander Felson, Peter Groffman, and Erica Spotswood -- Conclusion: Biodiversity for the People: Future Directions for Urban Biodiversity Conservation, Christopher J. Schell, Max Lambert, Simone Des Roches, Travis Gallo, and Nyeema C. Harris |