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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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  1. Department of Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, Salzburg, 5020, Austria

    Jürgen Breuste

  2. Department of Geography, Humboldt University of Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Salman Qureshi

  3. School of Architecture, Birmingham City University, Gosta Green, B4 7DX, Birmingham, UK

    Salman Qureshi

  4. Department of Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200241, China

    Junxiang Li

  5. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Ecological Restoration, East China Normal University, Dongchan Road, Shanghai, 200241, China

    Junxiang Li

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Breuste, J., Qureshi, S. & Li, J. Applied urban ecology for sustainable urban environment. Urban Ecosyst 16, 675–680 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-013-0337-9

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