The built environment has the potential to have a major impact on biodiversity, not least with the increasingly demanding requirements to design more energy eff

With the continual growth of the world's urban population, biodiversity in towns and cities will play a critical role in global biodiversity. This is the first

This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions. It provides an interesting meeting point between Asian, European and North Amer

The loss of the earth's biological diversity is widely recognized as a critical environmental problem. That loss is most severe in developing countries, where t

Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration’s long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which s