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Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future
Niles Eldredge
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Description for Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future
Hardback. 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. This book helps you explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 76 b/w scattered photos. BIC Classification: RGC; RNC; RNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
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 contradictions that cities present in embodying the best and the worst of human existence. The authors demonstrate that, though cities have voracious appetites for resources such as food ... Read more
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 contradictions that cities present in embodying the best and the worst of human existence. The authors demonstrate that, though cities have voracious appetites for resources such as food ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520270152
SKU
V9780520270152
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About Niles Eldredge
Niles Eldredge is Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History and codeveloper with Stephen Jay Gould of the theory of punctuated equilibria in evolutionary biology. Among his many books are Life in the Balance and Dominion (UC Press). Sidney Horenstein is a geologist and Environmental Educator Emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History and the natural ... Read more
Reviews for Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future
"Both born and bred New Yorkers, the authors masterfully make their case by telling it through the history of their city's growth and development, starting with the area's underlying geology and tracing New York's settlement and eventual development into perhaps the archetypal modern metropolis. The book persuasively makes the case that the world's concrete jungles may in fact be one ... Read more