Nature S Restoration

Author : Peter Friederici
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1559630868

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Nature's Restoration by Peter Friederici Pdf

With fewer and fewer pristine places on earth left to preserve, restoration is the "new" conservation. Yet the work is anything but easy. Ecology is complex, and restoration projects are often controversial. How do we know what's natural? What should nature look like? Can we ever really turn back the clock? These debates have real consequences for the land, and for the values people live by. Nature's Restoration poses intriguing questions about how people can live on the earth without destroying its natural systems. Through detailed reporting and numerous interviews, Friederici's lyrical writing puts us on the front lines of restoration to learn how this growing movement shapes places and inspires people. Nature's Restoration relates the passion of ordinary citizens who are changing the way we think about nature. They are restoring animal habitats, reintroducing native plants, bringing back lost species, and gaining a greater intimacy with the natural world. On a planet suffering from serious ecological problems, the growing restoration movement is a refreshing attempt to set things right.

Author : Canadian Parks Council
Publisher : National Parks Directorate Parks Canada Agency
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : UIUC:30112075777109

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Principles and Guidelines for Ecological Restoration in Canada's Protected Natural Areas by Canadian Parks Council Pdf

Author : Jean-Marc Daigle,Donna J. Havinga,Ecological Outlook Consulting,Ontario Parks Association
Publisher : Schomberg, Ont. : Ecological Outlook Consulting
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924073943957

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Restoring Nature's Place by Jean-Marc Daigle,Donna J. Havinga,Ecological Outlook Consulting,Ontario Parks Association Pdf

Author : Eric Higgs
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262582260

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Nature by Design by Eric Higgs Pdf

Ecological restoration is the process of repairing human damage to ecosystems. It involves reintroducing missing plants and animals, rebuilding soils, eliminating hazardous substances, ripping up roads, and returning natural processes such as fire and flooding to places that thrive on their regular occurrence. Thousands of restoration projects take place in North America every year. In Nature by Design, Eric Higgs argues that profound philosophical and cultural shifts accompany these projects. He explores the ethical and philosophical bases of restoration and the question of what constitutes good ecological restoration. Higgs explains how and why the restoration movement came about, where it fits into the array of approaches to human relationships with the land, and how it might be used to secure a sustainable future. Some environmental philosophers and activists worry that restoration will dilute preservation and conservation efforts and lead to an even deeper technological attitude toward nature. They ask whether even well-conceived restoration projects are in fact just expressions of human will. Higgs prefaces his responses to such concerns by distinguishing among several types of ecological restoration. He also describes a growing gulf between professionals and amateurs. Higgs finds much merit in criticism about technological restoration projects, which can cause more damage than they undo. These projects often ignore the fact that changing one thing in a complex system can change the whole system. For restoration projects to be successful, Higgs argues, people at the community level must be engaged. These focal restorations bring communities together, helping volunteers develop a dedication to place and encouraging democracy.

Author : Anne R. Schutte,Julia C. Torquati,Jeffrey R. Stevens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030690205

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Nature and Psychology by Anne R. Schutte,Julia C. Torquati,Jeffrey R. Stevens Pdf

This volume is comprised of contributions to the 67th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which brought together various research disciplines such as psychology, education, health sciences, natural resources, environmental studies to investigate the ways in which nature influences cognition, health, human behavior, and well-being. The symposium is positioned to explore two proposed mechanisms in the most depth: 1) the psycho-evolutionary theory of stress recovery and 2) Attention Restoration Theory. The contributions in the volume represent research guided by both of these posited mechanisms, rigorously examine these theories and processes, and share methodological innovations that can be utilized across programs of research. This volume will be of great interest to researchers on natural environments, practitioners and clinicians working with an environmental lens at the intersection of psychology, social work, education and the health sciences, as well as researchers and students in environmental and conservation psychology. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Kent H. Redford,William M. Adams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300258677

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Strange Natures by Kent H. Redford,William M. Adams Pdf

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between what is natural and what is human-made, which has informed conservation for centuries, has become blurred. When scientists can reshape genes more or less at will, what does it mean to conserve nature? The tools of synthetic biology are changing the way we answer that question. Gene editing technology is already transforming the agriculture and biotechnology industries. What happens if synthetic biology is also used in conservation to control invasive species, fight wildlife disease, or even bring extinct species back from the dead? Conservation scientist Kent Redford and geographer Bill Adams turn to synthetic biology, ecological restoration, political ecology, and de-extinction studies and propose a thoroughly innovative vision for protecting nature.

Author : Robert Lawrence France
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental psychology
ISBN : MINN:31951D026473672

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Healing Natures, Repairing Relationships by Robert Lawrence France Pdf

Presenting emerging perspectives on environmental restoration, this collection of essays by a leading group of environmental scholars combines theoretical discussion with practical approaches. Describing the variety of ways that humans can and should interact with nature, this multi-disciplinary work shares hands-on exercises for engaging urban communities to develop supportive relationships with their surrounding environment. These writings define the paradigm of restoration design and the ways that its disciplines and actions can provide humans with a new direction for interrelating with the world in the 21st century."

Author : Dave Egan,Evan E. Hjerpe,Jesse Abrams
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610910392

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Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration by Dave Egan,Evan E. Hjerpe,Jesse Abrams Pdf

When it comes to implementing successful ecological restoration projects, the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions are often as important as-and sometimes more important than-technical or biophysical knowledge. Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration takes an interdisciplinary look at the myriad human aspects of ecological restoration. In twenty-six chapters written by experts from around the world, it provides practical and theoretical information, analysis, models, and guidelines for optimizing human involvement in restoration projects. Six categories of social activities are examined: collaboration between land manager and stakeholders ecological economics volunteerism and community-based restoration environmental education ecocultural and artistic practices policy and politics For each category, the book offers an introductory theoretical chapter followed by multiple case studies, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of the category and provides a perspective from within a unique social/political/cultural setting. Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration delves into the often-neglected aspects of ecological restoration that ultimately make the difference between projects that are successfully executed and maintained with the support of informed, engaged citizens, and those that are unable to advance past the conceptual stage due to misunderstandings or apathy. The lessons contained will be valuable to restoration veterans and greenhorns alike, scholars and students in a range of fields, and individuals who care about restoring their local lands and waters.

Author : Stephen F. Arno,Carl E. Fiedler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015060815241

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Mimicking Nature's Fire by Stephen F. Arno,Carl E. Fiedler Pdf

In Mimicking Nature's Fire, forest ecologists Stephen Arno and Carl Fiedler present practical solutions to the pervasive problem of deteriorating forest conditions in western North America.

Author : David Inglis,John Bone,Rhoda Wilkie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415333075

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Nature: From nature to natures : contestation and reconstruction by David Inglis,John Bone,Rhoda Wilkie Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1597263389

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Restoring Nature by Anonim Pdf

Using a recent controversy over ecological restoration efforts in Chicago as a touchstone for discussion, Restoring Nature explores the difficult questions that arise during the planning and implementation of restoration projects in urban and wildland settings.

Author : Laura Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030861483

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Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition by Laura Smith Pdf

This book presents a critical history of the intersections between American environmental literature and ecological restoration policy and practice. Through a storying—restorying—restoring framework, this book explores how entanglements between writers and places have produced literary interventions in restoration politics. The book considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by writers themselves, and by conservationists, activists, policymakers, and others, in defense of U.S. public lands and the idea of wilderness. The book profiles five environmental writers and examines how their writings on nature, wildness, wilderness, conservation, preservation, and restoration have variously inspired and been translated into ecological restoration programs and campaigns by environmental organizations. The featured authors are Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) at Walden Pond, John Muir (1838–1914) in Yosemite National Park, Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) at his family’s Wisconsin sand farm, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890–1998) in the Everglades, and Edward Abbey (1927–1989) in Glen Canyon. This book combines environmental history, literature, biography, philosophy, and politics in a commentary on considering (and developing) environmental literature’s place in conversations on restoration ecology, ecological restoration, and rewilding.

Author : Dolly Jorgensen,Finn Arne Jorgensen,Sara B. Pritchard
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780822978725

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New Natures by Dolly Jorgensen,Finn Arne Jorgensen,Sara B. Pritchard Pdf

New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking. The chapters follow three central themes: ways of knowing, or how knowledge is produced and how this mediates our understanding of the environment; constructions of environmental expertise, showing how expertise is evaluated according to categories, categorization, hierarchies, and the power afforded to expertise; and lastly, an analysis of networks, mobilities, and boundaries, demonstrating how knowledge is both diffused and constrained and what this means for humans and the environment. Contributors explore these themes by discussing a wide array of topics, including farming, forestry, indigenous land management, ecological science, pollution, trade, energy, and outer space, among others. The epilogue, by the eminent environmental historian Sverker Sorlin, views the deep entanglements of humans and nature in contemporary urbanity and argues we should preserve this relationship in the future. Additionally, the volume looks to extend the valuable conversation between STS and environmental history to wider communities that include policy makers and other stakeholders, as many of the issues raised can inform future courses of action.

Author : William R. Jordan (III)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Restoration ecology
ISBN : 0040019764

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Making Nature Whole by William R. Jordan (III) Pdf

Making Nature Whole is a seminal volume that presents an in-depth history of the field of ecological restoration as it has developed in the United States over the last three decades.

Author : Reed F. Noss,Allen Cooperrider,Rodger Defenders of Wildlife
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1559632488

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Saving Nature's Legacy by Reed F. Noss,Allen Cooperrider,Rodger Defenders of Wildlife Pdf

Written by two leading conservation biologists, Saving Nature's Legacy is a thorough and readable introduction to issues of land management and conservation biology. It presents a broad, land-based approach to biodiversity conservation in the United States, with the authors succinctly translating principles, techniques, and findings of the ecological sciences into an accessible and practical plan for action. After laying the groundwork for biodiversity conservation -- what biodiversity is, why it is important, its status in North America -- Noss and Cooperrider consider the strengths and limitations of past and current approaches to land management. They then present the framework for a bold new strategy, with explicit guidelines on: inventorying biodiversity selecting areas for protection designing regional and continental reserve networks establishing monitoring programs setting priorities for getting the job done Throughout the volume, the authors provide in-depth assessments of what must be done to protect and restore the full spectrum of native biodiversity to the North American continent.