Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future
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If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, Eldredge and Horenstein use New York City as a microcosm to explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity. They illuminate the mass of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520270150
ISBN13:9780520270152
Release Date:October 2014
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.6"
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