Papers from a meeting of an interdisciplinary group of ecologists, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers held July 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Tempo and mode in restoration / Marcus Hall -- Restoration in history -- Reflections on Humpty-Dumpty ecology / David Lowenthal -- Spontaneous rewilding of the Apostle Islands / James Feldman -- Changing forests, moving targets in Finland / Timo Myllyntaus -- Sidebar: Clementsian restoration in Yosemite / William D. Rowley -- History in restoration -- Does the past matter in Scottish woodland restoration? / Mairi J. Stewart -- Palaeoecology, management, and restoration in the Scottish Highlands / Althea Davies -- Conservation lessons from the Holocene record in "natural" and "cultural" landscapes / Nicki J. Whitehouse -- The shifting baseline syndrome in restoration ecology / Frans Vera -- Regardening and the rest / Chris Smout -- Sidebar: Reforestation, restoration, and the birth of the industrial tree farm / Emily K. Brock -- Restore to what? : selecting target states -- Informing ecological restoration in a coastal context / Anita Guerrini and Jenifer E. Dugan -- South Yorkshire fens : past, present, and future / Ian Rotherham and Keith Harrison -- Uneasy relationships between ecology, history, and restoration / Jan E. Dizard -- Sidebar: Designing a restoration mega-project for New York / Mark B. Bain -- What to restore? : selecting initial states -- Reflooding the Japanese rice paddy / David Sprague and Nobusuke Iwasaki -- American Indian restoration / David Tomblin -- Restoring for cultural-ecological sustainability in Arizona and Connecticut / David G. Casagrande and Miguel Vasquez -- Models for renaturing brownfield areas / Lynn M. Westphal, Paul H. Gobster, and Matthias Gross -- Sidebar: Conflicting restoration goals in the San Francisco Bay / Laura A. Watt -- Changing concepts in restoration -- Nature without nurture? / Kathy Hodder and James Bullock -- Toward a multiple vision of ecological restoration / Josef Keulartz -- Rewilding the restorer / David Kidner -- Implementation : rewilding, regardening, and renaturing -- Implementing river restoration projects / Daniel McCool -- Cloning in restorative perspective / Eileen Crist -- NLIMBY : No Lions In My Backyard / C. Josh Donlan and Harry W. Greene -- Conclusions -- Restoring dirt under the fingernails / Eric Higgs.
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