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"Urban environments are expanding globally as the number and proportion of humans that live in cities continue to increase. The discipline of urban ecology is also expanding as interest surges in the ecological impacts of urbanization and the diverse ways in which urban environments can affect their human and non-human residents --This book provides an accessible introduction to urban ecology, using established ecological theory to identify generalities in the complexity of urban environments. Engaging yet scholarly, it examines the biophysical processes of urbanization and how these work together to influence (a) the characteristics of urban environments in developed and developing countries, and (b) the dynamics of urban populations, communities and ecosystems. With a strong international focus, it also explores the ecology of humans in cities and discusses practical strategies for conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services in urban environments. Finally, it argues that existing ecological theory is appropriate for understanding the ecology of urban environments across all levels of organization, from individual organisms to entire ecosystems; effective science and management need not wait on a new theory of urban ecology --Designed as a text book for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, Ecology of Urban Environments will also be an invaluable resource for researchers and policy-makers in the urban sphere --Book Jacket."

"How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/​peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, sewer systems, and industrial sites. The book presents models, patterns, and examples from hundreds of cities worldwide. Numerous illustrations enrich the presentation. Cities are analyzed, not as ecologically bad or good, but as places with concentrated rather than dispersed people. Urban ecology principles, traditionally adapted from natural-area ecology, now increasingly emerge from the distinctive features of cities. Spatial patterns and flows, linking organisms, built structures, and the physical environment highlight a treasure chest of useful principles. This text opens up frontiers of insight, as a valuable source and text for undergraduates, graduates, researchers, professionals and others with a thirst for solutions to growing urban problems. "

"Sustainable urban environments : an ecosystem approach presents fundamental knowledge of the built environment. Approaching the topic from an ecosystems perspective, it shows the reader how to combine diverse practical elements into sustainable solutions for future buildings and cities. From urban ecology to material, water and energy use, from urban transport to livability and health. The authors introduce and explore a variety of governance tools that support the transformation process, and show how they can help overcome institutional barriers. The book concludes with an account of promising perspectives for achieving a sustainable built environment in industrialized countries. Offering a unique overview and understanding of the most pressing challenges in the built environment, Sustainable urban environments helps the reader grasp opportunities for integration of knowledge and technologies in the design, construction and management of the built environment. "

"The urban environment - buildings, cities and infrastructure - represents one of the most important contributors to climate change, while at the same time holding the key to a more sustainable way of living. The transformation from traditional to sustainable systems requires interdisciplinary knowledge of the re-design, construction, operation and maintenance of the built environment. Sustainable Urban Environments: An Ecosystem Approach presents fundamental knowledge of the built environment. Approaching the topic from an ecosystems perspective, it shows the reader how to combine diverse practical elements into sustainable solutions for future buildings and cities. You'll learn to connect problems and solutions at different spatial scales, from urban ecology to material, water and energy use, from urban transport to livability and health. The authors introduce and explore a variety of governance tools that support the transformation process, and show how they can help overcome institutional barriers. The book concludes with an account of promising perspectives for achieving a sustainable built environment in industrialized countries. Offering a unique overview and understanding of the most pressing challenges in the built environment, Sustainable Urban Environments helps the reader grasp opportunities for integration of knowledge and technologies in the design, construction and management of the built environment. Students and practitioners who are eager to look beyond their own fields of interest will appreciate this book because of its depth and breadth of coverage."

"This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology’s original purpose, thus expanding the language of environmental engagement whilst also demonstrating a clear understanding of the societal issues and values being addressed. Features: assesses how data from smart cities may be used to create artworks that can recast residents’ understanding of urban space; examines transformations of urban space through the reimagining of urban information; discusses the engagement of urban residents with street art, including collaborative community art projects and public digital media installations; presents perspectives from a diverse range of practicing artists, architects, urban planners and critical theorists."

"ABSTRAKKota sebagai lingkungan hidup buatan dapat dilihat sebagai hasil dari suatu proses interaksi antara manusia dengan manusia dan antara manusia dengan lingkungannya. Kota, sebagai pusat kegiatan dan konsentrasi kehidupan manusia, dewasa ini mengalami perkembangan yang sangat pesat. Pertumbuhan dan perkembangan penduduk menuntut berbagai sarana dan prasarana untuk mencukupi kebutuhannya.Pembangunan dapat optimal bila didukung oleh perencanaan yang memadai. Salah satu dampak pembangunan terjadi pada sumber daya alam dan lingkungan. Akibat dampak berupa degradasi lingkungan, yang bila dibiarkan akan merusak lingkungan dan selanjutnya akan menurunkan kualitas lingkungan.Untuk menangani masalah perkotaan ini sangat diperlukan perangkat pengaturan pengelolaan yang memadai.Di Indonesia, permasalahan ini telah menjadi pusat perhatian berbagai pihak, baik pihak pemerintah, swasta, maupun masyarakat umum, terbukti dengan munculnya berbagai peraturan perundang--undangan, kelembagaan, dan aktivitas lainnya.Aktivitas tersebut perlu ditunjang oleh informasi akurat, tepat waktu, dan dipercaya. Namun informasi yang ada di berbagai lembaga sebagian tidak diterbitkan dan dikelola secara memadai sehingga tidak terjangkau oleh yang memerlukan. Informasi ini, apabila dikelola dengan baik dan dimanfaatkan secara optimal, akan sangat membantu para pengambil kebijakan pembangunan maupun pendidikan/pengembangan keilmuan. Selain itu terjadinya duplikasi penelitian akan sangat kecil.Penelitian difokuskan pada: menyusun sistem informasi dan mekanisme kerja organisasi yang efisien dan optimal untuk mengelola informasi ekologi perkotaan.Sampel/responden, berjumlah 100 orang yang dipilih dari berbagai instansi dan profesi (pengambil kebijakan, perencana/perancang, pengelola lingkungan, dan peneliti/staf pengajar), dan ditambah 100 orang pengelola informasi. Data diperaleh melalui kuesioner dan wawancara dengan para responden di berbagai kota yang telah ditentukan kriterianya. Survai dan studi kepustakaan dilakukan untuk memperkuat hasil penelitian.Hasil penelitian menyimpulkan:1. 1. Informasi ekologi perkotaan belum dikelola secara memadai2. 2. Pusat informasi pada umumnya belum mendukung kebutuhan para pengambil kebijakan pembangunan maupun pendidikan/ pengembangan keilmuan.3. 3. Responden (61%) menyatakan kesulitan mencari laporan penelitian, 88% menginginkan informasi mutakhir, 40% menginginkan abstrak, 26 % indeks, 16% resensi, 100% menghendaki informasi yang dibutuhkan harus dapat diketemukan; dan 95% menghendaki perlunya petugas pemandu subyek spesialis.Agar informasi ekologi perkotaan dapat dimanfaatkan secara optimal, diperlukan suatu sistem simpan temu kembali informasi yang berbentuk Pusat Analisis Informasi Ekologi Perkotaan (PAIEP). PAIEP sebagai wadah yang bertugas mengumpulkan, menyimpan, menganalisis, mengevaluasi, dan membuat tinjauan, untuk disebarluaskan kepada peminatnya.Untuk mengoptimalkan hasil informasi, diusulkan suatu mekanisme kerja dan struktur kelembagaan sebagai berikut:1. Koordinasi meliputi: inventarisasi koleksi, pemanfaatan informasi, penyusunan bibliografi/katalog induk, analisis /evaluasi informasi, dan konsultasi untuk menghasilkan informasi baru yang lebih bermanfaat.2. Koordinasi dengan pusat-pusat informasi dari berbagai pihak baik tingkat pusat (Bappenas, Pusat Studi Lingkungan (PSL), Pusat Informasi dan Dokumentasi untuk Perencanaan Kota dan Daerah (PUSIDO), Pusat Informasi Teknik Pembangunan (BIC), Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat (LSM), Badan Koordinasi Survey dan Pemetaan Nasional(BARORSURTANAL), dan Pusat Dokumentasi dan Informasi Ilmiah (PDII) dan tingkat daerah (Bappeda, PSL,PUSIDO, BIC, dan LSM) melalui hubungan kerja sama atau jaringan informasi. Untuk kelancaran dan kemudahan dalam pengoperasiannya, setiap jenis kelompok pusat informasi (PSL, PUSIDO, SIC,) menunjuk satu pusat informasi sebagai pusatnya. Pusat-pusat informasi daerah mempunyai kewajiban untuk mengumpulkan informasi di daerahnya masing-masing.3. Pelayanan informasi di tingkat propinsi dilayani oleh PSL, sedangkan untuk tingkat pusat dilayani oleh PAIEP.4. Sajian informasi berbentuk: Ringkasan literatur, laporan penelitian, bibliografi, brosur, buku penuntun, buku petunjuk alamat, daftar tambahan koleksi, informasi kilat, monografi, proseding, tinjauan kritis, dan sebagainya.5. Untuk menjaga kelancaran dan kemudahan-kemudahan dalam pengelolaan, PAIEP sementara waktu sebaiknya berada di bawah koordinasi Kantor Menteri KLH.6. Menemukan/memutakhirkan cara/prosedur yang efisien dan efektif berkenaan dengan pengumpulan, penyimpanan, analisis,evaluasi, dan penyajian informasi ekologi perkotaan.

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ABSTRACT

Urban areas as a made life environment may be seen as the results of the interaction process between man, between man and his environment.

Urban areas as the centre of activities and the concentration of human life are growing very fast nowadays. Population growth and development need many kinds of facilities and infrastructure.

Development could be optimal, if supported by proper planning. Development has an impact on natural resources and environment. The impact is found as environment degradation that, if neglected, could damage the environment, and further more, degrading its quality. Therefore, a proper environment management is really needed to handle this urban problem. In Indonesia, this problem becomes the focus of attention by many parties, including Government, and private sectors, to result in many kinds of rules, new established institutions and other activities.

These activities need to be supported by an accurate, on time and trustworthy information. Unfortunately most of the information available in many of the institutions were not well published and well managed, resulting in being out of reach by those who need it.

When this information is managed well and optimally employed it will be very useful for development policy makers as well as education and science. Besides, duplication in research will be reduced.

This study focuses on information systems and the mechanism of proper and efficient organization of information on urban ecology. A sample of 100 persons as taken from a variety of institutions and professions (policy makers, planners/designers, environment officials, researcher lecturers) and an other 100 persons whose jobs deal with information.

Data were gathered from questionnaires and interviews to respondents in many places of which its criteria has been indicated. Literature study was carried out to strengthen the results of the research.

The conclusions of the research are as follows:

1. 1. The information of urban ecology is not well managed.

2. 2. Generally, the information centre is not capable of supporting the needs of development policy makers as well as education and science development.

3. 3. As many as 61% of the respondents state that they have difficulties in searching research reports, 88% of them are in need of current information, 26% need abstracts, 16% need reviews, 100% request that information they need must be found and 95% need the guidance of a subject specialist.

Direct access to an information system is needed to enable optimal use of the urban ecology information and therefore, Information Analysis Centre for Urban Ecology {IACUE) is needed.

IACUE as an institution whose tasks is to collect, maintain, analyze, evaluate and state of the art reviews to be distributed to those who are interested. To optimize the results of information, the study proposed an institutional structure and work mechanism as follows:

1. Coordination, including: collection inventory, the use of information, the preparation of bibliographies/union catalogue, analyzing/evaluating of information, and consultative work to produce new information that could be more useful.

2. Coordination through an information network covering centers of information of many parties including public offices suck as Bappenas, Pusat Studi Lingkungan (PSL), Pusat Informasi dan Dokumentasi untuk Perencanaan Kota dan Daerah (PUSIDO), Pusat Informasi Teknik Pembangunan (BIC), Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat (LSM), Badan Koordinasi Survay dan Pemetaan Nasional (BAKORSURTANAL), Pusat Dokumentasi dan Informasi Ilmiah (PDII) and institutions at district areas (Bappeda, PSL, PUSIDO, BIC, and LSM).To make it easy in its operation, every information centre (PSL, PUSIDO, BIC) should appoint one of the information centers as a center (coordinator). The district information centers are responsible for collecting information in their district areas.

3. Information services at provincial level are served by PSL while at the central level PAIEP {IACUE) has the responsibility.

4. The information channels take the form of: literature summaries, research reports, bibliographies, brochures, guide books, directories, accession lists, current con-tents, monographies, proceedings, critical reviews, etc.

5. To facilitate its administration, IACUE is suggested to be under the Ministry of State for Population and Environment.

6. It needs to select or find the most efficient and effective procedure in collecting, maintaining, analyzing, evaluating, and presenting urban ecology information."