Urban Ecology
Urban Ecology -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Advisory Board -- Introduction -- Urban Ecology - Scientific and Practical Aspects -- Towards Ecological Sustainable Cities: Strategies, Models and Tools -- Ecological Cities - Models, Environmental Aims, Standards 1 -- Perspectives on the Environment: New Options -- Workshop: Environmental Quality Aims and Ecological Aims 1.1 -- Environmental Accounting on a Communal Level -- Urban Development and Environmental Policy: Objectives Outline of a Multi-disciplinary Research Programme -- Environmental Quality Goals and Standards as a Basis and Way to an Agenda 21 for Leipzig -- Environmental Quality Targets for Urban Structural Units in Leipzig with a View to Sustainable Urban Development -- The Role of "Process Chains Analysis" in Investigating Environmental Problems of Cities -- Environmental Quality Targets in the City of Wiesbaden -- Assessing the Metabolism of Urban Systems for Urban Planning -- Workshop: Urban Climate 1.2 -- The Urban Climate and Municipal Climate Protection - Different Sides of the Same Coin? -- A Case Study on the Effects of Vegetation on the Climate in the Urban Area -- Assessment of Human-Biometeorological Conditions in Different Kinds of Urban Structures -- Models for Setting up a Biometeorological Warning System over a Populated Area in Havana -- Workshop: Air Pollution 1.3 -- Air Quality in a Tropical Mega-City - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Airborne Pollutants from Mobile Sources for the City of Mendoza, Argentina -- Suburban Commercial Estates and their Impact on the Situation of Immissions in the City of Leipzig -- Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in an Urban Ecosystem -- Estimation of Air Quality by Complex Index -- Workshop: Water Management 1.4 -- Sustainable Berlin by Process Coupling between City and Catchment.