LibGuides: Sustainable Cities Project: Land Use

Directive

Highly populated areas use land quickly for roads, housing developments, and businesses, leaving very little natural land. Explain how this negatively impacts ecosystems and ecosystem services. Please identify the ecosystem services and their benefits you will address when designing your city.

Ecosystem: Definition

A biological system composed of all the organisms found in a particular physical environment, interacting with it and with each other. Also in extended use: a complex system resembling this.
From OED

Resources

Achieving Sustainability by Macmillan Reference USA (Editor); Debra Rowett (Editor)
Call Number: via Gale Virtual Reference
ISBN: 9780028662015
Publication Date: 2014-02-26
eBook
Human Geography by Lee Lerner (Editor); Brenda Lerner (Editor)
Call Number: via Gale Virtual Reference
ISBN: 9781414491356
Publication Date: 2013-04-17
eBook

Sustainable Cities Project: Land Use

Directive

Ecosystem: Definition

A biological system composed of all the organisms found in a particular physical environment, interacting with it and with each other. Also in extended use: a complex system resembling this. From OED

Resources

Urban Green Space

A biological system composed of all the organisms found in a particular physical environment, interacting with it and with each other. Also in extended use: a complex system resembling this.
From OED