Urban Biodiversity and Equity: Justice-Centered Conservation in Cities

This advanced textbook delves into the complexities of managing urban biodiversity,exploring human-wildlife interactions,resource availability,climate fluctuations,novel species relationships,and landscape heterogeneity. It emphasizes the significance of recognizing social variation within and across urban areas,as urban human communities shape how cities are designed,built,and managed. The book highlights the legacy of social inequality in urban systems and advocates for a justice-centred approach to nature conservation. It is suitable for graduate students and professional researchers in urban ecology,conservation,and management,as well as urban ecologists,urban planners,and wildlife practitioners.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press

This comprehensive textbook delves beyond a mere scientific understanding of urban ecosystems, exploring the intricate nuances involved in developing effective strategies for managing urban biodiversity. Such endeavors necessitate unraveling the multifaceted factors that either promote or hinder biodiversity, encompassing human-wildlife interactions, resource availability, climate fluctuations, novel species relationships, and landscape heterogeneity. However, attaining a comprehensive grasp of these processes requires also acknowledging the profound social diversity inherent within and across urban areas. The diverse tapestry of urban human communities fundamentally shapes the way society designs, constructs, and manages urban landscapes. Consequently, urban environmental management must inherently account for the intricate variations in human social dynamics. Regrettably, urban systems have a history and ongoing legacy of social inequality, such as systemic racism and classism, which govern the construction and management of cities. This novel text not only highlights these connections but also showcases the interdisciplinary approaches required for advancing a new, justice-centered approach to nature conservation. Urban Biodiversity and Equity is designed for advanced-level students and professional researchers from diverse natural and social science disciplines, with an interest in the ecology, conservation, and management of urban environments and their biodiversity. It will also hold relevance and utility for a broader audience of urban ecologists, urban planners, and urban wildlife practitioners.

Weight: 650g
Dimension: 189 x 247 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780198877288