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ArticleAmbio2024

From urban ecology to urban enquiry: How to build cumulative and context-sensitive understandings.

Erik Andersson, Timon McPhearson, Steward T A Pickett

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Article in Ambio, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The ecology of urban segregation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Erik AnderssonEcosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 1, P.O. Box 65, 00014, Helsinki, Finland. erik.andersson@helsinki.fi.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2716-5502
Timon McPhearsonStockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Albanovägen 28, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden.
Steward T A PickettCary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Box AB, Millbrook, NY, 12545, USA.

Funding

NordForsk 95377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper positions urban ecology as increasingly conversant with multiple perspectives and methods for understanding the functions and qualities of diverse cities and urban situations. Despite progress in the field, we need clear pathways for positioning, connecting and synthesising specific knowledge and to make it speak to more systemic questions about cities and the life within them. These pathways need to be able to make use of diverse sources of information to better account for the diverse relations between people, other species and the ecological, social, cultural, economic, technical and increasingly digital structures that they are embedded in. Grounded in a description of the systemic knowledge needed, we propose five complementary and often connected approaches for building cumulative systemic understandings, and a framework for connecting and combining different methods and evidence. The approaches and the framework help position urban ecology and other fields of study as entry points to further advance interdisciplinary synthesis and open up new fields of research.

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CitiesEcologyHumansUrbanizationCommensurabilityInterdisciplinarityMixed methodsMultiple evidenceSocial–ecological–technological systemsSystems thinking

Identifiers

PMID38643344
PMCPMC11058139

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