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Table of Contents “...Conservationists versus preservationists ; National forests and parks ; Restoring deserts and wetlands ; Wildlife reserves in Asia and Africa ; Ethical and legal presumptions ; Questions : public land : adaptive management -- Urban ecology : building green. The built environment ; Transportation ; Water and waste ; Sustainable cities ; Consequences ; Questions : urban ecology : building green -- Climate change : global warming. ...”

Subjects “...Urban ecology (Sociology) Developing countries....”
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Table of Contents “...Introduction: Ecosystem Services from Urban Agriculture in the City of the Future -- Part I: Soil and Water Resources -- Chapter 2: Soil Formation and Nutrient Cycling -- Chapter 3: A Guide to Types of Non Potable Water and the Potential for Reuse in Urban Systems -- Chapter 4: Graywater Reuse For Irrigation: Benefits and Potential Hazards -- Chapter 5: Planting Abundance: Alternative Water Sources for Urban Farms -- Part II: Ecosystem Services -- Waste Treatment -- Chapter 6: The Role of Organic Residuals in Urban Agriculture -- Chapter 7: Municipal Food Waste Management Options: Climate and Economic Impacts -- Chapter 8: Food Waste Composting in Seattle: The Political Perspective -- Chapter 9: Cedar Grove Compost: Developing a Combined Food- Yard Waste Centralized Composting Program -- Part III: Ecosystem Services -- Climate Regulation -- Chapter 10: Soils and Climate Change -- Chapter 11: Soil Carbon Sequestration and Organic Wastes -- Chapter 12: Lettuce to Reduce Greenhouse Gases: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional and Community Agriculture -- Part IV: Ecosystem Services -- Habitat -- Chapter 13: Basics of Microbial Ecology and Function in Urban Agriculture -- Chapter 14: Urban Microbiomes and Urban Agriculture: What Are The Connections and Why Should We Care? ...”
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Table of Contents “...: agency and food sovereignty of women in urban agriculture in Nairobi / Joyce-Ann SyhreÿandÿMeike Brckner -- Transnational reconfigurations of reproduction and the female body : bioeconomics, motherhoods and the case of surrogacy in India / Christa Wichterich -- Menstrual politics in Argentina and diverse assemblages of care / Jacqueline Gaybor Tobar -- Bodies, aspirations and the politics of place : learning from the women brickmakers of La Ladrillera / Azucena del Rosario Gollaz Mor n -- Towards an urban agenda from a feminist political ecology and care perspective / Ana Agostino....”
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Table of Contents “...Urbane-ing the city : examining and refining the assumptions behind urban informatics / Amanda Williams, Erica Robles, and Paul Dourish -- To connect and flow in Seoul : ubiquitous technologies, urban infrastructure and everyday life in the contemporary Korean city / Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi and Adam Greenfield -- Creating an analytical lens for understanding digital networks in urban South Africa / Nancy Odendaal -- Place making through participatory planning / Wayne Beyea, Christine Geith, and Charles McKeown -- TexTales : creating interactive forums with urban publics / Mike Ananny and Carol Strohecker -- An event-driven community in Washington, DC : forces that influence participation / Jenny Preece -- Moments and modes for triggering civic participation at the urban level / Fiorella De Cindio, Ines Di Loreto, and Cristian Peraboni -- Fostering communities in urban multi-cultural neighbourhoods : some methodological reflections / Michael Veith, Kai Schubert, and Volker Wulf -- Beyond safety concerns : on the practical applications of urban neighbourhood video cameras / Victor M. ...”
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Table of Contents “...In-Between Canada: The Emergence of the New Urban Middle / Roger Keil and Douglas Young -- The In-Between City as an Image of Society: From the Impossible Order Towards a Possible Disorder in the Urban Landscape / Thomas Sieverts -- A Cartographic Portrait of the In-Between City / Patricia Burke Wood and Robert Fiedler -- Disasters and the In-Between City / David Etkin and Lilia Malkin-Dubins -- The Representational Challenge of the In-Between / Robert Fiedler -- Slow Growth versus the Sprawl Machine: Winnipeg, Manitoba / Richard Milgrom-- The Fight for (Sub)Urban Form: Urbanizing or Privatizing the Suburban Realm? ...”
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