Animals and urban planning: Indian cities as Zoöpolises

该项目旨在研究在印度六个生态多样化、快速发展的中等城市中，选定的野生、共生和商品化物种与人类生活在一起的日常现实。印度的快速城市化和生物多样性的减少具有重要的全球影响，但印度城市生物多样性的复杂社会层面在当前的规划中被忽视了。将利用档案和经验方法，其结果有望为全球和各州的城市和生物多样性政策产生对印度城市生物多样性复杂社会层面的新见解。这将为未来维持城市生物多样性的规划提供更广泛的经验基础。

This project aims to examine the everyday realities of selected wild, commensal, and commoditised species living close to humans in six ecologically diverse, rapidly growing, medium-sized cities in India. India’s rapid urbanisation and declining biodiversity have critical global implications, but the complex social dimensions of Indian urban biodiversity are overlooked in current planning. Archival and empirical methods will be utilised, with outcomes expected to generate new insights into the complex social dimensions of Indian urban biodiversity for global and state urban and biodiversity policies. This will offer an expanded empirical basis for planning that sustains urban biodiversity in cities of the future.