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Urban responses to global environmental change (e.g., urban strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation). Consequences of urban responses to global environmental change. Additionally, the goals of UGEC include: creating multidimensional integrative perspectives; promoting parallel and comparative analysis across regions and themes;
Kourdounouli, Christina, and Anna Maria Jönsson. “Urban Ecosystem Conditions and Ecosystem Services – a Comparison between Large Urban Zones and City Cores in the EU.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate, vol. 63, no. 5, January 2020, pp. 798–817. EBSCOhost [22]
Urban ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in an urban environment. An urban environment refers to environments dominated by high-density residential and commercial buildings, paved surfaces, and other urban-related factors that create a unique landscape. The goal of urban ...
In 2019, the institute received $2.5 million in federal funding to study resilience and sustainability in urban food systems. [25] In 2020, the Institute received a gift to create the Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Biodiversity Research Challenge Fund to support research on the preservation of species and ecosystems. [26]
The challenge is a bioblitz that engages residents and visitors to find and document plants, animals, and other organisms living in urban areas. [1] [2] The goals are to engage the public in the collection of biodiversity data, with three awards each year for the cities that make the most observations, find the most species, and engage the most ...
Urban forest inequity, also known as shade inequity or tree canopy inequity, [1] is the inequitable distribution of trees, with their associated benefits, across metropolitan areas. [2] This phenomenon has a number of follow-on effects, including but not limited to measurable impacts on faunal biodiversity and the urban heat island effect.
Urban gardens are often places that facilitate positive social interaction, which also contributes to overall social and emotional well-being. Urban agriculture sites have been noted as lowering crime rates generally in local neighborhoods. [82] Many gardens facilitate the improvement of social networks within the communities that they are located.
The UFZ, together with the universities of Leipzig, Halle-Wittenberg and Jena and other research facilities, is a cooperation partner of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), [9] which was established in 2012. iDiv is based in Leipzig and is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).