Urban ecology: advancing science and society

Urban ecology: advancing science and society

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America I proposing the ecosystem as an organizational framework, Tansley (1935) explicitly included the effects of humans. When asking, “Is man part of ‘nature’ or not?”, Tansley concluded that “human activity finds its proper place in ecology”. Nowhere is the human–nature interface more unmistakable than in urban ecosystems, and urban eco...

Ecology of Child Well-being: Advancing the Science and the Science-practice Link

Developing a science of infrastructure ecology for sustainable urban systems.

Systems Ming Xu,*,†,‡ Marc Weissburg, Joshua P. Newell,† and John C. Crittenden †School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States ‡Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Center for Biolog...

Advancing regulatory science, advancing regulatory practice

In an Editorial of Science in 2011, Margaret A. Hamburg, the then Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration highlighted that a strong field of regulatory science is required to develop new tools, standards and approaches that efficiently and consistently assess the safety, efficacy and performance of products, and that this field has long been underappreciated and underfunded.1 During...

Advancing Clinical and Translational Science

The vision for the 2015–2020 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) strategic plan is that ASCPT’s influence and leadership make it the authority on the science and practice of translational medicine, building on a foundation of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (http://www.ascpt.org/About-ASCPT/ASCPT-StrategicPlan). The vision for Clinical and Translational Sc...