Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices

by Peter Newman

Book Overview

Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries.

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597261882
• ISBN13: 9781597261883
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.1"