Urban ecology
Urban ecology
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ecology studies the relations of mankind with each other and their surroundings
including cities and urbanizing landscapes. It focuses on understanding the
coexistence of human and ecological processes in urban environment and help humans
to build more sustainable living. It is a subfield of ecology and it has strong
connections with many disciplines like sociology, geography, urban planning,
landscape architecture, engineering, economics, anthropology, climatology and
public health.
Therefore,
urban ecology refers the study of humans in urban environment and relationships
between humans and nature. It is comprise of ecology in cities and ecology of
cities. Ecology in cities deals with the effect of urbanization on the ecology
of living organisms as well as the differences between the ecological processes
in cities and those in other environments. Ecology of cities associated with
the interactions between ecological and social systems in an urban environment.
“Marzluff pointed out that urban ecology
can be viewed from three points: (1) ecology and evolution of living organisms
residing in city boundaries; (2) biological, political, economic, and cultural
ecology of humans in urban landscape; (3) cities resultant of the coupled
relations of humans and natural processes”.
Reference
Author of the essay is M Hasan Laskar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Sociology, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya. He is author and
founder of You Tube channel “Sociology for Life”. He is also the editor of this
Blog “Sociological Study”.
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