Book choice: Ecovillages, new frontiers for sustainability

For the book review I chose 'Ecovillages: new frontiers for sustainability', by Jonathan Dawson, first published in 2006. The book covers a wide range of topics, explaining what the concept is about and what the potential is for the future.

I think the ecovillage movement started more or less with the development of permacultures (type of ecological farming), and then was more and more developed as a whole lifestyle with ecocommunies that now are connected in the global ecovillages network. It covers all aspects for a sustainable lifestyle from food production, to community currencies, ecobuilding, waste management, local governance, equity, etc.

Don't know much about it, but this assignment is a good chance to get into it. I'm very interested in permacultures such as agroforestry, but I thought just food production is too much of a narrow scope for this assignment. The book covers permacultures, but places it in the context of the whole ecovillages concept. It is not an extensive book however, and this hopefully enables me to review it in depth and link it to other literature as well.