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Urban Ecology and Sustainability: by Atif Nauman (University of Gujrat)
Urban Ecology and Sustainability: by Atif Nauman (University of Gujrat)
Sustainability
By Atif Nauman(University of Gujrat)
Contents
• Introduction
• Methods to study Urban Ecology
• Urban Biodiversity
• Ecosystem Services
• Urban Effects on Environment
• Human Effects on biogeochemical pathways
• Urban sustainability
• Strategies to make urban sustainable
• References
Introduction
• Urban ecology is the study of ecosystems that include human
living in cities and urbanizing landscapes.
• The urban environment refers to environments dominated
by high-density residential and commercial buildings, paved
surfaces.
• Interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human
and Ecological processes can coexist in human-dominated
systems and help societies with their efforts to become more
sustainable.
Methods to study Urban Ecology
• Chemical and biochemical techniques
• Remote sensing
• Data can be overlaid with maps of land, urban features, and other
factors which effect areas to create the heat maps.
• These heat maps can be used to view trends and distribution over
time and space.
Methods to study Urban Ecology
Remote Sensing:
• Purify water
• Recycle wastes`
Urban Effects on Environment
• Urban people change their environment through their
consumption of food, energy, water, and land.