The edited collection Grounding Urban Natures is a significant addition to the growing literature on different aspects of urban environmental change. Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin have curated fascinating range essays that will serve as vital entry point into series intersecting debates concerning ecology, political ecology […]

Urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. In spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. In the “Brundtland Commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...

This article demonstrates a research strategy and prevention methodology for substance using urban youth that incorporates individual, social, and geographical parameters to systematically understand the ecology of risk and protection for urban youth. The primary goal of this study was to describe and analyze substance using and nonusing urban adolescents' social networks; risky and protective ...

The presence and impacts of wild dogs (Canis lupus dingo and their hybrids) are increasingly being felt by producers and residents of towns and outer suburbs throughout the more populated areas of eastern NSW and Queensland. Management tools used to control wild dogs across rural Australia have limited use in peri-urban areas. Peri-urban wild dog management is often contentious and difficult to...

With the rise of interest in urban sustainability, the question of nature is front and center. This review suggests bridging between three distinct research paths concerned with urban areas and nature: urban ecosystem services, urban metabolism and urban political ecology to forge new thinking to transition from the sanitary city of the twentieth century to the sustainable city of the twenty-fi...

  The study seeks to address the importance of urban stream ecosystems from the perspective of urban ecology, human health and social well-being in the context of urban planning. The case study area is Paveh stream in the City of Paveh. The data from the case study area were gathered from questionnaire, existing scientific and library studies and by conducting interviews with residents and auth...

  The study seeks to address the importance of urban stream ecosystems from the perspective of urban ecology, human health and social well-being in the context of urban planning. The case study area is Paveh stream in the City of Paveh. The data from the case study area were gathered from questionnaire, existing scientific and library studies and by conducting interviews with residents and auth...