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Article Excerpt
Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
By Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer
Washington, DC:Island Press, 2009. 166 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59726-498-3, $60
Green Urbanism Down Under: Learning from Sustainable Communities in Australia
By Timothy Beatley with Peter Newman
Washington, DG: Island Press, 2009. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59726-411-2, $70
The environmental health field has been swept by major changes in recent years. One was the rediscovery of the "built environment" as a key determinant of human health. Community design--including land use and transportation decisions, but extending to such arenas as energy, housing, and food--affects outcomes as diverse as cardiovascular health, respiratory heath, cancer, injury risk, and social capital.
A second major advance has been the growing appreciation of global change as a fundamental driver of human health. Climate change is perhaps the best recognized example, but other global changes--peak petroleum, biodiversity loss, land use changes, and resource depletion--also loom large.
The two books reviewed here combine both...
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