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The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries but also in surrounding peri-urban areas. Landscape ecology the study of interactions across space and time between the structure and function of physical, biological and cultural components of landscapes has a pivotal role to play in identifying sustainable solutions.

This book brings together examples of research at the cutting edge of urban landscape ecology across multiple contexts that investigate the state, maintenance and restoration...

• The most complete textbook on this key subject.


• Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams.


• Informative case studies and examples.


• Considers the...

Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century the cultures that shaped Willa Cather s childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to many of her deeply held values are addressed in her fiction.

In two related sets of essays, seven contributors track within Cather s life or writing the particular cultural formations, emotions, and conflicts of value she absorbed from the atmosphere of...