Resources

In addition to the many links that appear throughout this issue we have gathered the following recommended resources on urban ecology.

Baltimore Ecosystem Study

Bill Moyers Reports, Earth on Edge: Urban Ecosytems

J. Breuste, H. Feldman and O. Uhlmann (Eds.) Urban Ecology. Results of an international conference held in Leipzig, German, June 25-29, 1997. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1998.

Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research

The E.F. Schumacher Society promotes the building of strong local economies that link people, land, and community.

HUD-EPA-DOT Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities

The National Park Service's Center for Urban Ecology identifies and responds to the natural resource needs of the National Capital Region, located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Recent publications from the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education

Daniel, Eddee. Urban Wilderness: Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed. Chicago, IL. The Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2008.

Disappearing headwaters: patterns of stream burial due to urbanization.

Dramstad, Wenche E., James D. Olson and Richard T.T. Forman. Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning. Washington, DC. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Island Press and the American Society of Landscape Architects, 1996.

Foreman, Richar T.T. [et. al.] Road Ecology: Science and Solutions. Washington, DC. Island Press, 2003.

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Kendle, Tony and Stephen Forbes. Urban Conservation: Landscape Management in the Urban Countryside. Osney Mead, Oxford. The Alden Press, 1997.

Long-Term Ecological Research Network

Hough, Michael. City Form and Natural Processes. New York, NY. Van Nostrand Rienhold Company Inc., 1984.

Rutherford H. Platt, (Editor). The Human Metropolis: People and Nature I the 21st Century City. Amherst & Boston, MA. University of Massachusetts Press, 2006m

Rosenzweig, Michael L. Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Expertise. New York, NY. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Schaefer, Valentin, Hillary Rudd, and Jamie Vala. Urban Biodiversity: Exploring Natural Habitat and it's Value in Cities. Concord, Ontario. Captus Press Inc., 2000-2004.

Daniel S Smith and Paul Cawood Hellmund (Eds.). Ecology of Greenways: Design and Function of Linear Conservation Areas. Minneapolis, MN. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Urban Ecology Institute

Walker, Richard A. The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2007.