urban ecosystem

Japanese: urban ecosystem(英語表記)urbanecosystem
urban ecosystem

…The majority of people are now urban residents, and their consciousness and behavior are changing. At the same time, with the advancement of science and technology, there is a lot of attention being paid to how urbanization will progress in the future. Urban Issues [Ken Yamagishi] [Yasuhiko Wakai]
[Cities and Nature]
Urban ecology considers cities not simply administrative units, but a system that includes the residents and living organisms of urbanized areas, as well as the surrounding non-living natural environment such as the air, water, and soil, and calls this an urban ecosystem. The concept of ecosystem was originally proposed to refer to units of nature with distinctive physical features, such as forests, grasslands, and tundra, which represent both biotic and non-biological nature, but it came to be called urban ecosystems by analogy with these.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "urban ecosystem" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…大多数の人間が都市住民となり,その意識と行動が変わってくると同時に,さらに科学技術の進展の中で今後の都市化がどのような形で進むかが大いに注目されている。都市問題【山岸 健】【若井 康彦】
【都市と自然】
 都市を単なる行政的な単位ではなく,都市化された地域の住民,生物,これを取り巻く大気,水,土などの非生物的自然をひっくるめた一つの系として,これを都市生態系urban ecosystemと呼ぶのが,都市生態学urban ecologyの立場である。生態系はもともと,生物的自然+非生物的自然としての森林,草原,ツンドラなど,特色のある相観をもった自然の単位を呼ぶために提案された概念であるが,これらとのアナロジーで都市生態系と呼ばれるようになった。…

※「urban ecosystem」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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