The Australian Urban Ecology Group is dedicated to improving Ecology Australia is committed to improving human settlements into eco-cities - vibrant, equitable, ecological, sustainable, economic communities. The website provides an introduction to eco-cities, projects on eco-cities, articles and links to other websites. It also provides updates on the development of the discipline, such as newsletters, yearbooks, and conference literature. The site also highlights the Oslo Walk, a project initiated by the Australian Urban Ecology Group.

Terminology:" Urban ecosystem is a type of network structure with certain functions formed by the interaction between urban humans and the surrounding biotic and abiotic environment, and it is also a special artificial ecosystem established by humans on the basis of transformation and adaptation to the natural environment. Unlike natural ecosystems, it focuses on the interrelationship between urban humans and the urban environment. It is a complex system composed of natural system, economic system and social system.

With the increasing pollution of the living environment, many countries have begun to put urban ecology in the focus of research and implementation, to make the city more reasonable development, not only to pay attention to the overall planning, but also to have the concept of ecological systems, the city arranged as a system composed of multiple components, Organic liaison of various components (subsystems), transmission of the circuit between each other, so that each link in the right place, each to the full, to achieve production, processing, supply and marketing, reproduction and other links to adapt to each other, coordinated development.