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Wild woodlands as a new component of urban forests.- Wild Urban Woodlands: Towards a Conceptual Framework.- New Perspectives for Urban Forests: Introducing Wild Woodlands.- Attitudes towards wild woodlands.- Attitudes towards Wilderness and Public Demands on Wilderness Areas.- Surrogate Nature or Wilderness? Social Perceptions and Notions of Nature in an Urban Context.- Nature for People: The Importance of Green Spaces to Communities in the East Midlands of England.- Living in the Urban Wildwoods: A Case Study of Birchwood, Warrington New Town, UK.- Use and Perception of Post-Industrial Urban Landscapes in the Ruhr.- People Working for Nature in the Urban Forest.- Ecological studies.- Nature Returns to Abandoned Industrial Land: Monitoring Succession in Urban-Industrial Woodlands in the German Ruhr.- Spontaneous Development of Peri-Urban Woodlands in Lignite Mining Areas of Eastern Germany.- Ecological Networks for Bird Species in the Wintering Season Based on Urban Woodlands.- Conceptual approaches and projects.- Nature Conservation, Forestry, Landscape Architecture and Historic Preservation: Perspectives for a Conceptual Alliance.- Approaches for Developing Urban Forests from the Cultural Context of Landscapes in Japan.- Strategies between Intervening and Leaving Room.- ¿New Wilderness¿ as an Element of the Peri-Urban Landscape.- Forests for Shrinking Cities? The Project ¿Industrial Forests of the Ruhr¿.- Post-Industrial Nature in the Coal Mine of Göttelborn, Germany: The Integration of Ruderal Vegetation in the Conversion of a Brownfield.- Natur-Park Südgelände: Linking Conservation and Recreation in an Abandoned Railyard in Berlin.