Organic Notions: Picking a New Place?

These past few weeks, I have been studying Iceland, and it is a great place. It is a place I would love to visit, a place I strongly hope holds true to its ideals and traditions, a place that lends itself to environmental study. Therein lies the issue I am facing. Iceland doesn't fit the model. It is not a "town" as the Place-Based Landscape Analysis prefers, nor is it in dire need of repair. Iceland is sitting pretty atop the pile when it comes to environmental concerns. This makes me wonder if it is appropriate to the task at hand. Would it be a good idea to focus in on a town in Iceland, like Reykjavik, or to pick a new place entirely? I am uncertain as to how to proceed.

Were I to pick a new place, it would be the Big Darby Creek Watershed in central Ohio. Big Darby Creek is a National Scenic River, 82 miles long. It runs through 4 counties, and is home to a variety of fish, mussel, and plant species found scarcely elsewhere in the world. The watershed itself contains 6 counties. Much of the land in the watershed is agricultural, however, which leads to environmental problems like sedimentation and eutrophication (due to fertilizer run-off). As on of the Nature Conservatory's "Last Great Places", this area must be protected, to preserve biodiversity, and land health. It also happens to be on of the most "tested" rivers in the United States, meaning there will be plenty of available information.

What do you think?
Reykjavik?