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Ashwani Vasishth. "Thinking Through the Ecological Economic Notion of Steady-State Economics". International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources 2017, 6, 1 .
AMA StyleAshwani Vasishth. "Thinking Through the Ecological Economic Notion of Steady-State Economics". International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources. 2017; 6 (2):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAshwani Vasishth. 2017. ""Thinking Through the Ecological Economic Notion of Steady-State Economics"." International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources 6, no. 2: 1.
Cities, as the quintessential socio-technological artifacts of human civilization, are seen to set us apart from nature. But an ecosystem view from nested scale-hierarchical process-function ecology shows us that cities are best seen as the emergent and nodal end points of interactive flows of matter, energy and information. From within such a view, a clear need emerges to ecologize our cities by better integrating them back with nature. Arguing from such an ecosystem approach to depicting reality, this paper proposes that tracing the processes and functions which constitute the morphology of the city leads us to articulate an urban ecology that incorporates heat island mitigations, urban forestry, and ecological landscape management (taken both as the introduction of native vegetation and the insertion of increased proportions of pervious paving), all considered within the framework of an integrative ecosystem approach to land use planning. More importantly, such an approach to urban ecology is useful because, as a mode of intervention, it rests on—indeed, requires—an acknowledgement in ecological planning of the often amorphous and usually only indirectly sensible atmospheric, biogeochemical and hydrological processes and functions.
Ashwani Vasishth. Ecologizing Our Cities: A Particular, Process-Function View of Southern California, from within Complexity. Sustainability 2015, 7, 11756 -11776.
AMA StyleAshwani Vasishth. Ecologizing Our Cities: A Particular, Process-Function View of Southern California, from within Complexity. Sustainability. 2015; 7 (9):11756-11776.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAshwani Vasishth. 2015. "Ecologizing Our Cities: A Particular, Process-Function View of Southern California, from within Complexity." Sustainability 7, no. 9: 11756-11776.
Sylvia Lorek; Ashwani Vasishth; Uchita De Zoysa. Transforming livelihoods and lifestyles for the well-being of all: a Peoples’ Sustainability Treaty on Consumption and Production. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 2012, 8, 1 -3.
AMA StyleSylvia Lorek, Ashwani Vasishth, Uchita De Zoysa. Transforming livelihoods and lifestyles for the well-being of all: a Peoples’ Sustainability Treaty on Consumption and Production. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. 2012; 8 (2):1-3.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSylvia Lorek; Ashwani Vasishth; Uchita De Zoysa. 2012. "Transforming livelihoods and lifestyles for the well-being of all: a Peoples’ Sustainability Treaty on Consumption and Production." Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 8, no. 2: 1-3.