Robert I. McDonald

Broschiertes Buch

Conservation for Cities

How to Plan & Build Natural Infrastructure

Beschreibung

Offers a comprehensive framework for maintaining and strengthening the supporting bonds between cities and nature through innovative infrastructure projects. After presenting a broad approach to incorporating natural infrastructure priorities into urban planning, the author focuses each following chapter on a specific ecosystem service.

Autor

Dr. Robert McDonald is Senior Scientist for Sustainable Land Use at The Nature Conservancy, where he is lead scientist for the organization's efforts to figure out how to make cities more sustainable. He holds a PhD in Ecology from Duke University and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, many of them on the science of how cities impact and depend on the environment. He blogs for The Nature Conservancy's Cool Green Science blog and has published two recent essays on urban/environment interactions in a collection called Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Global Issues (McGraw-Hill) and in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781610915229
• ISBN-10: 1610915224
• Artikelnr.: 42232716