The city planet and the ecology of urban ecosystems

The city planet and the ecology of urban ecosystems

Fabio Angeoletto, Frederico Fonseca da Silva, Ricardo Massulo Albertin

The global and massive urbanization of territories is the most important ecological phenomenon nowadays. The standards of urban growth are crucial for the conservation of biological diversity, and also to the degree of quality of life of urban populations. Contrary to the perception of biologists and other academics, of cities as sterile environments and opposite to the nature, the recent development of urban ecology, a necessarily interdisciplinary science, shows that cities are heterotrophic ecosystems that need to be planned in a manner that their impacts on the biosphere is diminished, and that in parallel their ability to sustain biodiversity is increased.

2015

Ecología urbana, Patios urbanos, Urbanización global, biodiversidad, ecosistemas urbanos

10.5007/1807-1384.2015v12n2p141

INTERthesis

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Social Sciences, Social sciences (General)