Urban Ecosystems

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Urban sustainability, urban ecology and the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE)

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Keywords

Landscape ecology Urban ecosystems Urban environment Sustainable development Urban design Urban planning 

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Research Group for Urban and Landscape Ecology, Department of Geography and GeologyUniversity of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
  2. 2.Department of GeographyUniversity of KarachiKarachiPakistan

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