The Confusion and Enlightenment of the City Urban Ecology

Author: Zhou Jilun
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: As a major symbol of human civilization, cities concentrate the essence of human wisdom. From space, the lights of cities are already enough to mark this blue planet with a prominent sign. For habitation, humans have invented and built various structures; in the hustle and bustle of various industrial and commercial labor for a comfortable life, people hardly thought about which of their actions were out of sync with nature. After experiencing several trials and tribulations, they suddenly realized that the pastoral life of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the southern mountain" had long become a thing of the past. Thus, "returning to nature" became the greatest aspiration of urban life. This book reveals what kind of cities humans need to build for sustainable survival? Can a comfortable urban life and a beautiful natural environment coexist? If urban and rural residents hope that the areas where they live can more effectively and rapidly prevent pollution hazards, and that the quality of production and living environments continues to improve with economic development, then simply satisfying more people to participate in environmental protection movements is far from enough. It is necessary to let more people adopt a new ecological concept, understand how to view environmental issues encountered in daily economic and cultural activities from an ecological perspective, and gain a deeper understanding of the ecological relationship between humans and the environment. Only in this way can we gradually establish an ecological ethics and its ethical norms that guide human social behavior, and ecological standards can gradually form and take effect. This book can effectively help people use the theory of natural ecosystems to analyze the relationship between humans and their living environment, as well as between humans and natural environments.