TY - JOUR
T1 - Global change and the ecology of cities
AU - Grimm, Nancy
AU - Faeth, Stanley H.
AU - Golubiewski, Nancy E.
AU - Redman, Charles
AU - Wu, Jianguo
AU - Bai, Xuemei
AU - Briggs, John M.
PY - 2008/2/8
Y1 - 2008/2/8
N2 - Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and hydrosystems locally to regionally, and urban waste discharge affects local to global biogeochemical cycles and climate. For urbanites, however, global environmental changes are swamped by dramatic changes in the local environment. Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects. Cities themselves present both the problems and solutions to sustainability challenges of an increasingly urbanized world.
AB - Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and hydrosystems locally to regionally, and urban waste discharge affects local to global biogeochemical cycles and climate. For urbanites, however, global environmental changes are swamped by dramatic changes in the local environment. Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects. Cities themselves present both the problems and solutions to sustainability challenges of an increasingly urbanized world.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1150195
DO - 10.1126/science.1150195
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18258902
AN - SCOPUS:38949138832
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 319
SP - 756
EP - 760
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5864
ER -