Urbanization and Sustainability: Characteristics, Challenges, and Solutions, Slides of Wildlife Ecology

Download Urbanization and Sustainability: Characteristics, Challenges, and Solutions and more Slides Wildlife Ecology in PDF only on Docsity! Chapter 10 The Urban World Docsity.com Population and Urbanization  Milestone: As of 2008, half of the world’s population lives in urban areas Docsity.com United States Urban Agglomerations (Population of 50,000 or above) Urbanization Trends  Urban Agglomeration  Urbanized core region that consists of several adjunct cities or megacities and their surrounding developed suburbs Docsity.com Environmental Problems in Urban Areas  Growing urban areas affect land use patterns  Fragment wildlife  Encroach wetlands, forests, desert, etc.  Impermeable surfaces and urban runoff discharged into waterways  Motor oil, lawn fertilizers, heavy metals  Noise pollution Docsity.com Suburban Sprawl  Suburban Sprawl  Patchwork of vacant and developed tracts around the edges of cities  Problems  Loss of wetlands  Air & water pollution  Loss of biological habitat Docsity.com