What Is the Scope of Nature in Cities? Along with Latin America, Also of Urban Land Expansion
2014 VOL 8 ISSUE 1 Special issue:Whatisthescopeofnatureincities? contents special issue: What is the 22 Colombian urban-regional environ- ments: Emerging ecosystems, emerging scope for nature in cities? logics GUEST EDITORS: MARIA SCHEWENIUS, JUANA MARIÑO D, MARÍA ANGÉLICA MEJÍA P, MARIA TENGÖ, HARINI NAGENDRA, MAD- GERMÁN ANDRÉS QUIMBAYO RUIZ HUSUDAN KATTI, THOMAS ELMQVist 26 Sacred trees in the urban landscape of photoframe Bangalore, India MARIA TENGÖ, DIVYA GOPAL, HARINI 03 CO-EXISTENCE NAGENDRA features 32 Beyond business as usual: Why urban biodiversity indicators matters 04 What is the scope for nature in cities? RYO KOHSAKA MARIA SCHEWENIUS, MARIA TENGÖ, HARINI NAGENDRA, MADHUSUDAN KAttI, THOMAS 34 Challenges and opportunities for nature ELMQVIST conservation in Rio de Janeiro: peninsula and Inhaúma 06 The wildlife of Madras city CECILIA HERZOG, RICARDO FINOttI M KRISHNAN 13 Keeping room for biodiversity in India’s column urban future MADHUSUDAN KAttI, MARIA SCHEWENIUS 37 Coexisting with biodiversity in the city MADHUSUDAN KAttI 16 Heritage trees of Cape Town: beacons of local history and culture RUSSELL GALT The magazine is produced with support from: Current Conservation carries the latest in research news from natural and social science facets of conservation, such as conservation biology, environmental history, anthropology, sociology, ecological economics and landscape ecology. For more details, visit our website at www.currentconservation.org editor’s note Maria Schewenius, Maria Tengö Garhwal Himalayas photoframe Co-existence Siroli Village, District Chamoli, Uttarakhand Cities provide the daily living environment for a growing part of the world’s population. 1 E U 4 ISS 1 20 8 Asia and Africa are experiencing unprecedented rates of people moving in to cities, and, L O V Special issue: What is the scope of nature in cities? along with Latin America, also of urban land expansion.
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