Urban Ecosystems

, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp 675–680 | Cite as

Applied urban ecology for sustainable urban environment

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Urban ecosystem services Urban planning IALE Urban modelling Landscape planning Urban biodiversity Urban nature SURE Megacities 
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Acknowledgments

This special issue is an output of the symposium which was organized by Jürgen Breuste, Junxiang Li and Clas Flogard at the 8th IALE World Congress in Beijing, China in 2011. We would like to thank the Congress organizers, Bojie Fu and Bruce Jones, for their help to make this symposium possible. We appreciate the reviewers who volunteered their precious time to review the articles submitted this special issue. Our thanks are also extended to the authors contributed to this special issue for their time and patience to make it a success.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jürgen Breuste
    • 1
  • Salman Qureshi
    • 2
    • 3
  • Junxiang Li
    • 4
    • 5
  1. 1.Department of Geography and GeologyUniversity of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
  2. 2.Department of GeographyHumboldt University of BerlinBerlinGermany
  3. 3.School of ArchitectureBirmingham City UniversityBirminghamUK
  4. 4.Department of Environmental SciencesEast China Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
  5. 5.Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Ecological RestorationEast China Normal UniversityShanghaiChina

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