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Wild by design : the rise of ecological restoration / Laura J. Martin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0674979427
  • 9780674979420
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH104 .M38 2022
Contents:
Introduction: Cultivating wildness -- Part I. Reservations, 1900-1945: Uncle Sam's reservations -- Ecology in the public service -- An outdoor laboratory -- Part II. Recovery, 1945-1970: Atoms for ecology -- The specter of irreversible change -- Part III. Regulation, 1970-2010: Extinct is forever -- The mood of wild America -- An ecological Tomorrowland -- Epilogue: Designing the future.
Summary: "Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which states of nature should be restored? Who should choose? Is human-designed wilderness really wild? Restoration work leads us to reimagine nature and the nature of environmental justice"--
List(s) this item appears in: Restoration Ecology
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves QH541.15.R45 M27 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800187304
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Cultivating wildness -- Part I. Reservations, 1900-1945: Uncle Sam's reservations -- Ecology in the public service -- An outdoor laboratory -- Part II. Recovery, 1945-1970: Atoms for ecology -- The specter of irreversible change -- Part III. Regulation, 1970-2010: Extinct is forever -- The mood of wild America -- An ecological Tomorrowland -- Epilogue: Designing the future.

"Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which states of nature should be restored? Who should choose? Is human-designed wilderness really wild? Restoration work leads us to reimagine nature and the nature of environmental justice"--

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