Search for dissertations about: "urban planning and biodiversity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words urban planning and biodiversity.
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1. Network Based Tools and Indicators for Landscape Ecological Assessments, Planning, and Design
Abstract : Land use change constitutes a primary driving force in shaping social-ecological systems world wide, and its effects reach far beyond the directly impacted areas. Graph based landscape ecological tools have become established as a promising way to efficiently explore and analyze the complex, spatial systems dynamics of ecological networks in physical landscapes. READ MORE
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2. Biodiversity and green infrastructure in urban landscapes
Abstract : In this thesis, I evaluate the extent to which biodiversity is affected, and taken into consideration by, urban planning. Based on landscape ecology, I apply an interdisciplinary approach. READ MORE
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3. Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg
Abstract : This thesis explores more-than-human entanglements of contemporary urban environments in order to develop a rearticulation of urban landscapes as spaces decidedly beyond the exclusively human. Taking its cue from the question “How do we live with urban difference today?,” such spaces, the thesis argues, emerge through, as well as change with, a variety of socio-ecological entwinements. READ MORE
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4. Urban shades of green : Current patterns and future prospects of nature conservation in urban landscapes
Abstract : Urban nature provides local ecosystem services such as absorption of air pollutants, reduction of noise, and provision of places for recreation, and is therefore crucial to urban sustainable development. Nature conservation in cities is also part of the global effort to halt biodiversity decline. READ MORE
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5. Spatial and temporal perspectives on biodiversity for physical planning : examples from urban Stockholm, Sweden
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