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- Title
From urban ecology to urban enquiry: How to build cumulative and context-sensitive understandings.
- Authors
Andersson, Erik; McPhearson, Timon; Pickett, Steward T. A.
- Abstract
This paper positions urban ecology as increasingly conversant with multiple perspectives and methods for understanding the functions and qualities of diverse cities and urban situations. Despite progress in the field, we need clear pathways for positioning, connecting and synthesising specific knowledge and to make it speak to more systemic questions about cities and the life within them. These pathways need to be able to make use of diverse sources of information to better account for the diverse relations between people, other species and the ecological, social, cultural, economic, technical and increasingly digital structures that they are embedded in. Grounded in a description of the systemic knowledge needed, we propose five complementary and often connected approaches for building cumulative systemic understandings, and a framework for connecting and combining different methods and evidence. The approaches and the framework help position urban ecology and other fields of study as entry points to further advance interdisciplinary synthesis and open up new fields of research.
- Subjects
URBAN ecology; CITIES &; towns; URBAN life; INFORMATION resources; CUMULATIVE effects assessment (Environmental assessment)
- Publication
AMBIO - A Journal of the Human Environment, 2024, Vol 53, Issue 6, p813
- ISSN
0044-7447
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13280-023-01959-5