Ecological Value of Urban Environments

Solutions to Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 99-112

  Trueman, Ian C ^a   Young, Christopher H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Built environment, and climate change challenges; Climate change implications, for urban ecology; Climate change, ecological implications; Contextual landscape evaluation; Creative conservation sites, detailed assessment; Ecological value of urban environments; Garden evaluation, for a rich urban environment; Landscape scales, and urban areas; Sustained study of urban biodiversity, balancing gains losses; Urban ecology, and anthropogenic influences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886474542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444354539.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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