Restoration and History (eBook, ePUB)

The Search for a Usable Environmental Past
Redaktion: Hall, Marcus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Once a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to emulate the old, or else plant designer forests to satisfy our immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or simply create them? How does the past shed light on our environmental efforts, and how does the present influence our environmental goals? Can we predict the future of restoration?

This book explores how a consideration of time and history can improve the practice of restoration. There is a past of restoration, as well as past assumptions about restoration, and such assumptions have political and social implications. Governments around the world are willing to spend billions on restoration projects - in the Everglades, along the Rhine River, in the South China Sea - without acknowledging that former generations have already wrestled with repairing damaged ecosystems, that there have been many kinds of former ecosystems, and that there are many former ways of understanding such systems. This book aims to put the dimension of time back into our understanding of environmental efforts. Historic ecosystems can serve as models for our restorative efforts, if we can just describe such ecosystems. What conditions should be brought back, and do such conditions represent new natures or better pasts? A collective answer is given in these pages - and it is not a unified answer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135272104
• Artikelnr.: 42514452

Autorenporträt

Marcus Hall is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah. His most recent book, Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration was published by Virginia University Press in 2005. He is winner of the Antoinette Forrester Downing book award, and was awarded a fellowship by the Smithsonian Institute in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Tempo and
Mode in Restoration. Marcus Hall. Restoration in History. 2. Reflections on
Humpty-Dumpty Ecology. David Lowenthal. 3. Spontaneous Rewilding of the
Apostle Islands. James Feldman. 4. Changing Forests, Moving Targets in
Finland. Timo Myllyntaus. 5. Sidebar: Clementsian Restoration in Yosemite.
William Rowley. History in Restoration. 6. Does the Past Matter in Scottish
Woodland Restoration? Mairi J. Stewart. 7. Palaeoecology, Management, and
Restoration in the Scottish Highlands. Althea Davies. 8. Conservation
Lessons from the Holocene Record in "Natural" and "Cultural" Landscapes.
Nicki J. Whitehouse. 9. The Shifting Baseline Syndrome in Restoration
Ecology. Frans Vera. 10. Regardening and the Rest. Chris Smout. 11.
Sidebar: Reforestation, Restoration, and the Birth of the Industrial Tree
Farm. Emily K. Brock. Restore To What? Selecting Target States. 12.
Informing Ecological Restoration in a Coastal Context. Anita Guerrini &
Jenifer E. Dugan. 13. South Yorkshire Fens: Past, Present, and Future. Ian
Rotherham & Keith Harrison. 14. Uneasy Relationships between Ecology,
History, and Restoration. Jan E Dizard. 15. Sidebar: Designing a
Restoration Mega-Project for New York. Mark B. Bain. What To Restore?
Selecting Initial States. 16. Reflooding the Japanese Rice Paddy. David
Sprague & Nobusuke Iwasaki. 17. American Indian Restoration. David Tomblin.
18. Restoring for Cultural-Ecological Sustainability in Arizona and
Connecticut. David G. Casagrande & Miguel Vasquez. 19. Models for
Renaturing Brownfield Areas. Lynn M. Westphal, Paul H. Gobster, & Matthias
Gross. 20. Sidebar: Conflicting Restoration Goals in the San Francisco Bay.
Laura A. Watt. Changing Concepts In Restoration. 21. Nature Without
Nurture? Kathy Hodder & James Bullock. 22. Toward a Multiple Vision of
Ecological Restoration. Josef Keulartz. 23. Rewilding the Restorer. David
Kidner. Implementation: Rewilding, Regardening, & Renaturing. 24.
Implementing River Restoration Projects. Daniel McCool. 25. Cloning in
Restorative Perspective. Eileen Crist. 26. NLIMBY: No Lions In My Backyard.
C. Josh Donlan & Harry W. Greene. Conclusions. 27. Restoring Dirt Under the
Fingernails. Eric Higgs. Contributors. References. Index.