GGR100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Takers, Invasive Species, Urban Ecosystem
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Urban political ecology urban areas are ecosystems that are thought of systems. Ecology of cities, not in cities: thinking about ecology of cities, not ecologies in cities is a new way of, a new way of understanding and seeing cities and urban processes understanding and seeing cities and urban processes. Ecology is the study of the relations of living organisms to each other and to their surroundings. Cities are a special kind of ecosystems. What is the overall structure of urban ecosystems: cities are not a natural" ecosystem. They have their own dynamics: the first insight is important, the seed in cities. Urban ecosystems are cities, towns, and urban strips that are constructed by. One way to understand, describe and measure the structure of urban. Main features of urban ecology are considering energy flow, urban footprints, humans. ecosystems is to look at flows natural capital, biophysical cycles and cities as biotic communities different nodes of the world.
