Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Friday, September 9, 2022

Thinking about cities: Were ancient cities greener than modern ones?

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    *This is part of a series called ‘Thinking About Cities’ which are parts of a book I am working on about urban green space that I’ve d...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Do the economics and logistics of field ecology bias our understanding of environmental problems?

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Location of Antarctic field stations . Image from Wikipedia. Field ecology is difficult, time-consuming and expensive. Ecologists ne...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

INTECOL 2017: Building the eco-civilisation

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--> The International Association for Ecology holds their global INTECOL conference every 4 years, and it was recently held in B...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

What do we mean when we talk about the niche?

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The niche concept is a good example of an idea in ecology that is continually changing. It is probably the most important idea in ecology th...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The value of ecology through metaphor

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The romanticized view of an untouched, pristine ecosystem is unrealistic; we now live in a world where every major ecosystem has been impac...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Where the wild things are: the importance of urban nature

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Cities represent our ultimate domination over nature. They are landscapes that are completely modified to meet all of our needs and desires...