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David Bunn
Researcher at University of the Witwatersrand
Publications - 16
Citations - 358
David Bunn is an academic researcher from University of the Witwatersrand. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poaching & National park. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications receiving 318 citations. Previous affiliations of David Bunn include University of the Western Cape & Colorado State University.
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The New Global Urban Realm: Complex, Connected, Diffuse, and Diverse Social-Ecological Systems
Melissa R. McHale,Steward T. A. Pickett,Olga Barbosa,David Bunn,Mary L. Cadenasso,Daniel L. Childers,Meredith Gartin,George R. Hess,David M. Iwaniec,Timon McPhearson,M. Nils Peterson,Alexandria Poole,Louie Rivers,Shade T. Shutters,Weiqi Zhou +14 more
TL;DR: This article proposed a conceptual framework to broaden the development of urban ecological research and its application to sustainability, highlighting how urban areas are complex, connected, diffuse and diverse and what these interconnected features mean for the study of urban ecosystems and sustainability.
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Urban ecology in a developing world: why advanced socioecological theory needs Africa.
TL;DR: Increasing research on urban development processes occurring in Africa, and on patterns of kinship and migration in the less developed countries of the "Global South", will advance a more comprehensive worldview of how future urbanization will influence the progress of sustainable societies.
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Practicing the science of sustainability: the challenges of transdisciplinarity in a developing world context
Toddi A. Steelman,Elizabeth Guthrie Nichols,April L. James,Lori Bradford,Liesel Ebersöhn,Vanessa Scherman,Funke Omidire,David Bunn,Wayne Twine,Melissa R. McHale +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a multi-year project addressing water security issues in HaMakuya, South Africa, used a framework for assessing transdisciplinary objectives to facilitate more systematic learning for those who practice sustainability science.
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Democratization of ecosystem services—a radical approach for assessing nature’s benefits in the face of urbanization
Melissa R. McHale,Scott M. Beck,Steward T. A. Pickett,Daniel L. Childers,Mary L. Cadenasso,Louie Rivers,Louise Swemmer,Liesel Ebersöhn,Wayne Twine,David Bunn +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate how ecosystem services may be utilized to either reinforce or fracture the planning and development practices that emerged from segregation and economic exclusion, and evaluate the impact of ecosystem services on economic exclusion.