Menno Schilthuizen, Jono Nussbaum

The Urban Naturalist

How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground
Illustrator: Nussbaum, Jono

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A manifesto and a field guide for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780262049092
• ISBN-10: 0262049090
• Artikelnr.: 71268590

Autorenporträt

Menno Schilthuizen, illustrations by Jono Nussbaum

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part 1: Build Your Own Down House (We can all be Victorian naturalists now)
Chapter 1. The age of the amateur
Chapter 2. Rock vacations
Chapter 3. Darwin @home
Chapter 4. Soup kitchens for science
Chapter 5. Virtual academia
Chapter 6. On Chesil beachcombing
Chapter 7. Dead bug becomes specimen
Part 2: The City Is Your Galápagos (The urban as the naturalist’s goldmine)
Chapter 8. Hidden riches
Chapter 9. Nov. spec.
Chapter 10. Urban islands
Chapter 11. Involuntary slaughter
Chapter 12. It’s a trap!
Chapter 13. Animal architects of the Anthropocene
Chapter 14. The accidental ecosystem
Chapter 15. On the origin of urban species
Chapter 16. We are a node
Part 3: Knowledge Is Power (The urban conservationist)
Chapter 17. Speak softly and carry a big stick insect
Chapter 18. Tak kenal maka tak cinta
Chapter 19. Let it grow
Closer
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index