22
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: not found
      • Article: not found

      Characterization of Households and its Implications for the Vegetation of Urban Ecosystems

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisher
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Related collections

          Most cited references21

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: found
          • Article: not found

          Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity.

          Human population size and growth rate are often considered important drivers of biodiversity loss, whereas household dynamics are usually neglected. Aggregate demographic statistics may mask substantial changes in the size and number of households, and their effects on biodiversity. Household dynamics influence per capita consumption and thus biodiversity through, for example, consumption of wood for fuel, habitat alteration for home building and associated activities, and greenhouse gas emissions. Here we report that growth in household numbers globally, and particularly in countries with biodiversity hotspots (areas rich in endemic species and threatened by human activities), was more rapid than aggregate population growth between 1985 and 2000. Even when population size declined, the number of households increased substantially. Had the average household size (that is, the number of occupants) remained static, there would have been 155 million fewer households in hotspot countries in 2000. Reduction in average household size alone will add a projected 233 million additional households to hotspot countries during the period 2000-15. Rapid increase in household numbers, often manifested as urban sprawl, and resultant higher per capita resource consumption in smaller households pose serious challenges to biodiversity conservation.
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Down by the riverside: urban riparian ecology

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              Integrating Social Science into the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Social Dimensions of Ecological Change and Ecological Dimensions of Social Change

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                Ecosystems
                Ecosystems
                Springer Nature
                1432-9840
                1435-0629
                June 2006
                June 2006
                : 9
                : 4
                : 578-597
                Article
                10.1007/s10021-006-0116-z
                0d7ced33-408c-42bd-aaad-cc508dd6a427
                © 2006
                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article