What the source is:
Brown, A., Green, S., & Walker, T. (2022). Urban Ecology: The Science of Cities. Cambridge University Press.
2. Classify the source into one of the four types of information discussed in the tutorial:
The book I chose, Urban Ecology: The Science of Cities by Brown et al. (2022), is classified as academic, peer-reviewed review material.
3. Provide documentation to support your classification:
1. The author of the source is Dr. Andrew Brown and all the characters are professionals in urban ecology, named in the book’s appendix as Dr. Susan Green and Dr. Thomas Walker who are presented as academics and researchers.
2. Many other sources are referred to in the text and the author has also presented numerous other supporting citations.
3. It also includes a list of references that enumerates all the sources that were used throughout the chapters.
4. It is published by Cambridge University Press, an academic press which other fields know operates a strict referral system where experts in the specific field go through the book before it is published.
5. This is a text synthesis paper that presents a review of existing research on urban ecology, and as such, it contains a lot of discussion of concepts/theories; there are no new experimental results or findings reported in the paper and hence, no proper ‘Methods’ and ‘Results’ sections. Thus, in accordance with the tutorial “How to Evaluate Sources of Scientific Information,” this book can be deemed as the material meeting the criteria of academic peer review.