Urban Ecology

Urban ecology has traditionally been considered a field of inquiry emphasizing ecological processes and organization under the conditions of industrial urbanization. There is a growing interest in interdisciplinary, urban theoretical and scholarly research among the natural, social, and planning sciences, especially within the context of rapid global urbanization, population concentration, and industrial and environmental change. As a field of academic inquiry, urban ecology reflects and embodies changes and transitions in both urban theory and ecological theory over the past half-century.