Herrmann Dustin L, Schwarz Kirsten, Shuster William D, Berland Adam, Chaffin Brian C, Garmestani Ahjond S, Hopton Matthew E
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Research Participant Program at the US Environmental Protection Agency, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Kentucky University, in Highland Heights.
Bioscience. 2016 Jun 2;66(11):965-973. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biw062.
This article brings together the concepts of shrinking cities-the hundreds of cities worldwide experiencing long-term population loss-and ecology for the city. Ecology for the city is the application of a social-ecological understanding to shaping urban form and function along sustainable trajectories. Ecology for the shrinking city therefore acknowledges that urban transformations to sustainable trajectories may be quite different in shrinking cities as compared with growing cities. Shrinking cities are well poised for transformations, because shrinking is perceived as a crisis and can mobilize the social capacity to change. Ecology is particularly well suited to contribute solutions because of the extent of vacant land in shrinking cities that can be leveraged for ecosystem-services provisioning. A crucial role of an ecology for the shrinking city is identifying innovative pathways that create locally desired amenities that provide ecosystem services and contribute to urban sustainability at multiple scales.
本文将收缩型城市（全球数百个正在经历长期人口流失的城市）的概念与城市生态结合在一起。城市生态是将社会生态理解应用于沿着可持续轨迹塑造城市形态和功能。因此，收缩型城市的生态承认，与增长型城市相比，收缩型城市向可持续轨迹的城市转型可能会有很大不同。收缩型城市非常适合进行转型，因为收缩被视为一场危机，能够调动社会变革能力。由于收缩型城市中有大量闲置土地可用于提供生态系统服务，生态尤其适合提供解决方案。收缩型城市生态的一个关键作用是确定创新途径，创造出当地所需的便利设施，这些设施既能提供生态系统服务，又能在多个尺度上促进城市可持续发展。
