Managing & designing stress, disturbance & succession of urban wastelands for biodiversity

Abstract

The main goals of the workshop were to identify ways in which ecology and design can be successfully integrated and to determine future research and teaching directions in urban ecology and ecological design. Now more than ever we need to understand the role of urban ecology and design in dealing with social, climatic, economic and biodiversity crises in a rapidly changing world. This presentation focuses on managing and designing stress, disturbance and succession of urban wastelands for biodiversity.