A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world’s population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate and sea-level change, and much more. This important book draws on two decades of pioneering social and ecological studies in Baltimore to propose a new way to think about cities and their social, political, and ecological complexity that will apply in many different parts of the world. Readers will gain fresh perspectives on how to study, build, and manage cities in innovative and sustainable ways.

The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities

Politics & Social Sciences

Pickett, Steward T.A.

Burch Jr., William R.

Machlis, Gary E.

Cadenasso, Mary L.

Grove, J. Morgan

Sociology

Yale University Press

A landmark book that strives to provide both grand theory and practical application, innovatively describing the structure and dynamics of human ecosystems As the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance becomes acute. The Human Ecosystem Model described in this landmark book provides an innovative response. Broad in scope, detailed in method, at once theoretical and applied, this grand study offers an in-depth understanding of human ecosystems and tools for action. The authors draw from Goethe’s Faust, classic anthropology and sociology studies, contemporary ecosystem ecology, Buddhist ethics, and more to create a seminal model and a major advance in interdisciplinary ecology.

The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems: Toward a Model for Understanding and Action

Force, Jo Ellen

Social Sciences

This provocative investigation draws from diverse sources not usually combined in sociological synthesis (such as Pleistocene geography, literary criticism, biology, and chemistry). The analysis examines the social consequences of man-environment interactions under a variety of conditions and includes such topics as the discovery of the environmental crisis; time, habitat and social structure; vocabularies of nature; rhetorical uses of nature; democracy and conservation; frontiers, abundance, and rationality; and the end of normality.

Daydreams and Nightmares: A Sociological Essay on the American Environment

Society and Natural Resources Press

Rural Sociology and the Environment clearly and carefully illustrates the evolution of natural resource sociology and social science as a distinct field of study. Well before "social-ecological systems" became a popular concept in academic literature broadly, Donald R. Field and William R. Burch, Jr. co-authored this seminal text on what they call "social ecology." In this examination, these authors explore the evolving concepts of the environment in Rural Sociology during the 20th century from "dominion over nature" to "expanding the domain of nature" to "nature as a partner," which reflects a broader recognition of human dependence on environmental systems. One important contribution of this text is the revelation that the contemporary recognition of environmental service values for people emerges in part from a rigorous tradition of scholarship in Rural Sociology.

Rural Sociology and the Environment

Field, Donald R.

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