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The biodiversity of urban and peri-urban forests and the diverse ecosystem services they provide as socio-ecological systems
(2016)
Urban and peri-urban forests provide a variety of ecosystem service benefits for urban society. Recognising and understanding the many human-tree interactions that urban forests provide may be more complex but probably ...
Urbanization homogenizes the interactions of plant-frugivore bird networks
(2020-06-01)
Anthropogenic activities are the main cause of habitat loss and fragmentation, which directly affects biodiversity. Disruption in landscape connectivity among populations may affect complex interactions between species and ...
WATER, TOPOGRAPHY AND DISPERSION: qualifying small scale production and public space in the in-between territory of Cuenca, Ecuador
(2018)
ABSTRACT The problematizing of generic dispersion as a general evil of growing cities, has led to
a too-easy diagnosis with the same ‘illness’ to peri-urban territories under the influence of mid-sized
cities in the central ...
Reconfiguring the urban landscape of La Plata through a green network
(Ion Mincu University Publishing House, 2018-07)
This investigation aims to incorporate new visions and tools that investigate the public green space as a fundamental element that structures urban life and shape our cities. In this sense, the city of La Plata presents ...
Place attachment and identification as predictors of expected landscape restorativeness
(2019)
This study explores the roles of place attachment and place identification in the evaluation of the restorative potential of landscapes. Two hundred university students recruited at campuses in the Basque Country (Spain) ...
Towards a Landscape Ecosophy. Interpreting how the inhabitants of the Villarrica-Pucón urban system in the Araucanía Region of Chile perceive and relate with the dynamics of Landscape
(2016)
As a reaction to the complex global crisis, the notion of ecological urbanism has emerged in order to understand and attend the inaccuracy between the urban system and the environment of which it is a part. This article ...
The urban matrix matters: Quantifying the effects of surrounding urban vegetation on natural habitat remnants in Santiago de Chile
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Urbanization destroys and fragments natural habitats, resulting in a system of natural remnants embedded in an urban matrix. Urban natural remnants (UNRs) can provide multiple ecosystem services for ...
Territorial exploration to implement the recommendation on historic urban landscapes for the development area of el ejido in Cuenca, Ecuador
(International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020)
Cuenca in Ecuador is a growing city, weak in the face of the changes that the expansion phenomenon implies. The area of El Ejido was the first expansion area of the city with valuable samples of the arrival of modernity ...
Re-tracing urban landscape lines
(Firenze University Press, 2022-07-01)