J. Morgan Grove

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an emerging approach to understand the ecology of urban areas by contrasting these two metropolises, and present a call to action for ecologists to integrate their science with that of social scientists to achieve a more realistic and useful understanding of the natural world in general and its ecology in particular.

TL;DR: All social-ecological systems are vulnerable to recent and projected changes but have sources of adaptive capacity and resilience that can sustain ecosystem services and human well-being through active ecosystem stewardship.

TL;DR: This article proposed six hypotheses about local to continental effects of urbanization and pollution, and an operational research approach to test them, focusing on analysis of megapolitan areas that have emerged across North America, but also including diverse wildland-to-urban gradients and spatially continuous coverage of land change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental justice issue and employ a novel park service area approach that uses Thiessen polygons and dasymetric reapportioning of census data to measure potential park congestion as an equity outcome measure.

TL;DR: A review of different types of land-use change models incorporating human processes is presented in this article, where the authors compare land use change models in terms of scale (both spatial and temporal) and complexity, and how well they incorporate space, time and human decisionmaking.