Baker, K. (2007). Information ecology: open system environment for data, memories, and knowing. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 29 (1): 127-144.
Available Online at UCSD
"An information ecology provides a conceptual framework to consider data, the creation of knowledge, and the flow of information within a multidimensional context. This paper, reporting on a one year project to study the heterogeneity of information and its management within the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, presents some manifestations of traditionally unreported ‘invisible work’ and associated elements of informal knowledge and unarticulated information."
" The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) conducts research on metropolitan Baltimore as an ecological system. The program integrates biological, physical, and social sciences. As a part of the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Network, BES seeks to understand how Baltimore's ecosystems change over time. "
"In this paper, we estimate Hong Kong's direct and indirect ecosystem appropriation and environmental impacts from resource use and waste discharges. The paper's main objective is to present a new dimension in EF methodology: identifying the spatial patterns of environmental demands through ecosystem appropriation."
"By building a bridge between the natural and social sciences, BES strives to unravel how urban ecosystems function, with the goal of understanding this growing ecosystem type and incorporating the urban ecological system in the socio-political decision-making that influences the metropolitan environment. Over 35 researchers conduct the study, with partners from universities all over North America."
Kennedy, C.A., J. Cuddihy, and J. Engel Yan (2007). The changing metabolism of cities. Journal of Industrial Ecology. May.
Available online at MIT Press Journals.
"Data from urban metabolism studies from eight metropolitan regions across five continents, conducted in various years since 1965, are assembled in consistent units and compared. Together with studies of water, materials, energy, and nutrient flows from additional cities, the comparison provides insights into the changing metabolism of cities."