Ecologists Must Join Humanity’s Rush To The Cities

Cities are responsible for so many of the sustainability challenges faced by our urbanising world, but urban ecologists can help unlock the benefits of city living, say researchers in Science.Urban environments act as microcosms of the challenges faced globally, which makes them real world laboratories for understanding and responding to change, concludes a team of ecologists from CSIRO, Arizona State University and the New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics.

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Filed under: Public Health on February 11th, 2008