★ Fundamentals of the urban human-environment system.
★ This book provides up-to-date basic knowledge on the urban geosphere and biosphere, with a special focus on the anthroposphere with its various interventions in the urban ecosystem.
★ An outlook on the current and future tasks of urban ecological research and planning completes the title.

What is urban ecology? What do we know about nature in the city and how can cities be ecologically structured? What role do climate, water balance and soil play in urban areas? Which plants and animals have adapted particularly well to city life? How do city dwellers intentionally or unintentionally intervene in the natural interrelationships? What is the importance of urban planning and what challenges of global change are cities increasingly having to deal with?

These and other basic questions of the urban human-environment system are explained in detail and clearly by the author. Memos in the margins concisely summarize the most important content and findings, numerous figures and tables illustrate the facts and facilitate understanding. A reference system with an extensive bibliography and index enables further deepening and quick finding of information.

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Endlicher

A German geographer and university lecturer.

Endlicher passed his Abitur in 1966 and then studied geography, Romance studies and meteorology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Grenoble. He completed his studies in 1975 with the state examination and then worked as a research assistant for Wolfgang Weischet in Freiburg.

In 1979 Endlicher received his doctorate in geography. Endlicher received the Gödecke Prize for his dissertation. After working as a scientific assistant and DAAD guest lecturer at the Universidad de Concepción, Endlicher habilitated in 1985. After a deputy professorship in Erlangen (1985/86) and a Heisenberg scholarship (1987/88), Endlicher was promoted to a C3 professorship in geoecology in 1988 appointed at the University of Marburg. In 1998 Endlicher received a call to a C4 professorship for climate geography and climatological environmental research at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Endlicher has been a senior professor since 2014.

On February 18, 2004 he was registered in the geosciences section under matriculation no. 6933 accepted as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. Endlicher researches the environment and nature in large cities, particularly within the framework of urban climatology. He is married and has three children.