Viewing the urban socio-ecological system through a sustainability lens: Lessons and prospects from the central Arizona-Phoenix LTER programme

Long Term Socio-Ecological Research: Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 217-246

  Grimm, Nancy B ^a   Redman, Charles L ^b   Boone, Christopher G ^b   Childers, Daniel L ^b   Harlan, Sharon L ^b   Turner, B L ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Land use change; Socio ecological system; Urban biogeochemical cycles; Urban footprint; Urban heat island; Urban sustainability; Urban water dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904438750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1177-8_10     Document Type: Chapter

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