“Urban Ecology: A New Science for Revitalizing America's Cities”
“Is the term ‘urban ecology’ an oxymoron?” asks Eric Strauss, director of the University's Environmental Studies Program and science director of the Urban Ecology Institute, in his lecture at the Weston Observatory. With 75 percent of the U.S. population and half of the world’s population living in urban areas, the sustainability of urban ecological systems is of paramount importance, says Strauss, who suggests we must stop thinking of the city as a problem but as “a solution with respect to environmental and social challenges.”
Presenter(s): Eric Strauss, BC
Date: December 6, 2006
Location: 381 Concord Road, Weston MA, Colloquium Room
Sponsor(s): Department of Geology and Geophysics
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/strauss/
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