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# Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices Illustrated Edition

**Brand:** peter newmanisabella jennings
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## Customer Reviews

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    Skims the surface of a deeper topic
  

*by A***J on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2009*

This book comes across as presenting in-depth information on creating sustainability within cities by utilizing a systems approach. Instead, what it is is a long restatement of "the Ten Melbourne Principles for Sustainable Cities", a set of principles developed at a conference held in Melbourne, Australia. All of the principles are covered in the introduction. The authors then rehash them in ten chapters incorporating a lot of naivete along the way.One theme that keeps recurring in the book is the idea that indigenous cultures are more aware than other cultures of the importance of preserving the ecosystems on which they depend. This is a good example of "survivor bias". The authors pay attention to cultures that have survived, ignoring all the failed indigenous cultures. They are also making a misleading statement about these cultures by suggesting their practices were such that they would have continued on had they not been interrupted by Europeans.The authors give some broad, non-science based introductions to topics like resilience, panarchy, and ecosystems, going so far as to misrepresent an ecosystem as some sort of smoothly running conflict-free process. Nature is cutthroat. It is unforgiving to elements that are causing problems. It is not the sort of place where the members are focused on "Fostering a sense of joy and belonging through rituals and celebrations following natural cycles" (p.47). Unless, of course, you see a bear taking down a moose then killing any animal that tries to interfere with his meal a joyful celebration.On the bright side, I think this book provides a lot of introductory information and some good references on the topics it addresses.

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    Topics in Sustainability
  

*by J***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2014*

Excellent work by experts in the field - used as part of the study work for a specific course at Curtin Universityand very useful as a general exposition of work required now and in the future.

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    Five Stars
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2017*

Minimal wear. A couple of stickers but nothing that affected the quality of the reading material.

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