Reading List
BOOKS
The Ecological City (Platt, Rowntree, and Muick)
Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities (Beatley)
The Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies (Louise Tenney)
Aquatic Macroinvertebrates of the Pacific Northwest
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast (Pojar)
Faster (James Gleick)
Women's Life in Greece and Rome (Lefkowitz and Fant)
Sexual Contradictions: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism (Janet Sayers)
The Woman and the Lyre (Snyder)
Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, Nutrasweet, and the FDA May be Harmful to Your Health (Mercola)
The Quest (Tom Brown, Jr.)
Sex in History (Reay Tannahill)
The Art of Silk Ribbon Embroidery (Judith Montano)
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craftster.org
etsy.com
SELECTED PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
A gradient analysis of urban lanscape pattern: a case study from the Phoenix metropolitan region Arizona, USA
Matthew Luck and Jianuo Wu
Urban metal flows - a case study of Stockholm
B. Bergback, K. Johansson, U. Mohlander
Nitrogen fluxes and retention in urban watershed ecosystems
Peter Groffman, Neely Law, Kenneth Belt, Lawrence Band, Gary Fisher
Urban Ecology and special features of urban ecosystems
Franz Rebele
Streams in the urban landscape
Michael Paul and Judy Meyer
Estimation of urban imperviousness and its impacts on storm water systems
Joon Gwang Lee and James P. Heaney, M. ASCE
Integrated approaches to long term studies of urban ecological systems
Nacy Grimm, Morgan Grove, Steward Picket, Charles Redman
Urban Bird Diversity and landscape Complexity: Species-environment associations along a multiscale habitat gradient
Stephanie Melles, Susan Glenn, and Kathy Martin
Birds and butterflies along an urban gradient: Surrogate taxa for assessing biodiversity?
Robert Blair
Reviving urban streams: Land use, hydrology, biology, and human behavior
Derek Booth et. al
Ecosystem services in urban areas
Per Bolund, Sven Hunhammar
Integrating humans into Ecology: Opportunities and challenges for studying urban ecosystems
Marina Alberti et. al
Ecology on the edge: Landscape and ecology between town and country
Sybrand P. Tjallingii
NATURE IN CITIES:
From commons to commons: Evolving concepts of open space in North American cities
Rutherford H. Platt
Design with city nature: An overview of some issues
Michael Hough
URBANIZATION AND RIPARIAN/AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
Sustainability in urban ecosystems: Beyond an object of study
Orie L. Loucks
Sustainability of urban wetlands
Marjorie M. Holland and Raymond W. Prach
The Des Plaines River Wetlands demonstration project: Restoring an urban wetland
Donald I. Hey
Lake Tahoe: A Microcosm for the study of the impact of urbanization on fragile ecosystems
Charles R. Goldman
Wetlands in the urban landscape of the United States
James A. Schmid
URBANIZATION AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
The deep significance of urban trees and forests
John F. Dwyer, Herbert W. Schroeder, and Paul H. Gobster
Cooling urban heat islands with sustainable landscapes
E. Gregory McPherson
Wildflower meadows as sustainable landscapes
Jack Ahern and Jestene Boughton
The Indiana Dunes: Applications of landscape ecology to urban park management
Richard Whitmand, Daniel B. Fagre, Noel B. Pavloic, and Kenneth L. Cole
Rethinking the urban park: Rediscovering urban solutions
Annaliese Bischoff
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS IN URBAN ECOLOGY
The greening of federal flood-control policies: The Wildcat-San Pablo Creeks case
Reconciling urban growht and endangered species: The Coachella Valley habitat conservation plan
Timothy Beatley
The metropolitan Portland Urban Natural Resource Program
Joseph Poracsky and Michael C. Houck
Ecology Education for city children
Karen S. Hollweg