Wild by design : the rise of ecological restoration / Laura J. Martin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0674979427
- 9780674979420
- Restoration ecology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Restoration ecology -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Environmental responsibility -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Environmental responsibility -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- QH104 .M38 2022
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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"--