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These days human beings have an incredible influence on the planetary ecosystem, on climate change, on biodiversity, to name only two. Many of the ecosystems on the planet nowadays are more or less dominated by humans and that is true especially for the ecosystems, where men are living in, rural and urban settlements. Therefore it is most important to design and operate this kind of systems in a way that is really sustainable, which means long-term-functioning in harmony with the planetary system and human and non-human its inhabitants.
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Geller, G., Glücklich, D. (2012). Introduction. In: Geller, G., Glücklich, D. (eds) Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28261-4_1
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