ENVS 3740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Urban Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Urban Ecosystem
18 Jan 2017
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Defined as the study of the interaction of organisms with one another and with the environment and the transformations of matter, energy, and information that are mediated by organisms: adaptations, behaviors. Cities and other urban ecosystems are jointly biological social, built and geomorphic. Landscape: (laura taylor) the idea of the entire environment around us as something human have helped to shape, and that includes and shapes us . Ecological landscapes as spatially delimited area of any scale that are internally heterogeneous and spatial interactions within and among those areas. Ideology: nature as socially constructed (smith, 1984, role of ideology in uneven development (eagleton, 1991, metaphor (meaning, model) Not landscapes characterized as wild or devoted to resource management. Instead landscapes based on he commodification of natural resources. Urban area: city or town related spaces where people and buildings are concentrated. Spatial: level of observation (local, regional, global: cities are at the center of urban regions.
