Global urbanization: Can ecologists identify a sustainable way forward?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-104

  McDonald, Robert I ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENERGY USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

EID: 40349108552     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070038     Document Type: Review

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