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And join us for the May Lunchtime Lecture -

 

May 10 Wednesday NOON to 1pm at The PARD Senior Activity Center-Lamar 29^th St + 2874 Shoal Crest Ave, South Room

• Center for Environmental Research Lunchtime Lecture by Kevin M. Anderson
• 2017 Lunchtime Lectures – Understanding Urban Nature: Ecology, Culture, and the American City
• May 2017 Lunchtime Lecture - Nature in the City: Urban Habitats and the Degradation Myth
• Since the 19th century, books about urban natural history have documented the richness of habitats and diversity of species to be found in American cities. However, traditionally in America, biologists and ecologists study nature in “wildlands” and so view urban nature as degraded and disturbed in comparison. Urban nature worthy of professional study and protection is whatever remnant habitats remain from before the city was built, and the rest is a problem to correct. However, in recent decades, the rapid growth of urban ecology in America has begun to rewrite this simplistic degradation myth into a more complex story of urban biodiversity across a wide range of urban habitats and to rediscover historical books of urban natural history that add more texture to the story.  Join us for a lecture about the past, present, and future of urban natural history.
   
  Repeated twice more in May:
   
  May 16  Tuesday NOON to 1pm at the Center for Environmental Research – Hornsby Bend
• Center for Environmental Research Lunchtime Lecture by Kevin M. Anderson
• May 2017 Lunchtime Lecture - Nature in the City: Urban Habitats and the Degradation Myth
   
  May 18 Thursday NOON to 1pm at One Texas Center 505 Barton Springs Road + South First Street, Room 325
• Center for Environmental Research Lunchtime Lecture by Kevin M. Anderson
• May 2017 Lunchtime Lecture - Nature in the City: Urban Habitats and the Degradation Myth