Wild Urban Woodlands New Perspectives for Urban Forestry - Kowarik, Ingo.; Körner, Stefan; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005)
Wild woodlands as a new component of urban forests -- Wild Urban Woodlands: Towards a Conceptual Framework -- New Perspectives for Urban Forests: Introducing Wild Woodlands -- Attitudes towards wild woodlands -- Attitudes towards Wilderness and Public Demands on Wilderness Areas -- Surrogate Nature or Wilderness? Social Perceptions and Notions of Nature in an Urban Context -- Nature for People: The Importance of Green Spaces to Communities in the East Midlands of England -- Living in the Urban Wildwoods: A Case Study of Birchwood, Warrington New Town, UK -- Use and Perception of Post-Industrial Urban Landscapes in the Ruhr -- People Working for Nature in the Urban Forest -- Ecological studies -- Nature Returns to Abandoned Industrial Land: Monitoring Succession in Urban-Industrial Woodlands in the German Ruhr -- Spontaneous Development of Peri-Urban Woodlands in Lignite Mining Areas of Eastern Germany -- Ecological Networks for Bird Species in the Wintering Season Based on Urban Woodlands -- Conceptual approaches and projects -- Nature Conservation, Forestry, Landscape Architecture and Historic Preservation: Perspectives for a Conceptual Alliance -- Approaches for Developing Urban Forests from the Cultural Context of Landscapes in Japan -- Strategies between Intervening and Leaving Room -- "New Wilderness" as an Element of the Peri-Urban Landscape -- Forests for Shrinking Cities? The Project "Industrial Forests of the Ruhr" -- Post-Industrial Nature in the Coal Mine of Göttelborn, Germany: The Integration of Ruderal Vegetation in the Conversion of a Brownfield -- Natur-Park Südgelände: Linking Conservation and Recreation in an Abandoned Railyard in Berlin.
Keywords: Geobiology; Geography; Regional planning; Urban planning; Landscape ecology; Geoecology; Environmental geology; Ecotoxicology; Biogeosciences; Geography, general; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Landscape Ecology; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Ecotoxicology