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Provisional title
Lead author & institution
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Urban ecology in the Global South - development, definitions, why need a Global South perspective
Editors
2 Urbanisation in the Global South
Garth Myers; Trinity College (USA)
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Urban landscape history (legacy effects, extinction debts, past land use on current form)
Marie du Toit; Northwest University (RSA) 4
Urban social ecology (incl. environmental justice and political ecology)
Marion Mehring; Inst for Social-Ecological Research (Germany)
Section 2: Urban Green Infrastructure & Biodiversity: patterns & processes
5 Urban green infrastructure (concepts scales, types, distribution, functions)
Stephan Pauleit; Technical University of Munich (Germany)
6 Plant diversity (including functional diversity & invasive species)
Pippin Anderson; University of Cape Town (RSA)
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Animal diversity (including functional diversity & invasive species)
Chevonne Reynolds; University of the Witwatersrand (RSA) Section 3: Ecosystem services
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Urban provisioning ecosystem services
Charlie Shackleton; Rhodes University (RSA)
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Urban regulating ecosystem services
Francisco Escobedo; University of Florida (USA) 10
Urban cultural ecosystem services
Cynnamon Dobbs; Mayor University (Chile)
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Urban ecosystem disservices
Elandrie Davoren; Rhodes University (RSA)
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Urban agriculture (incl. livestock)
Axel Drescher; Frederick Alexander University (Germany) Section 4: Planning and management
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Promoting urban resilience and seeking sustainability
Nadia Sitas; University Stellenbosch (RSA)
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Social and ecological connectivity
Kristi Maciejewski; University of Stellenbosch (RSA)
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Ecological planning and design
Sarel Cilliers; Northwest University (RSA) 16
Urban governance of and for urban green and blue infrastructure (both formal and informal governance approaches, public participation)
David Simon; Royal Holloway University of London (UK)
Concluding remarks
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(Re)imagining towns and cities of the future Global South
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