Wild by design : the rise of ecological restoration
Title:
Wild by design : the rise of ecological restoration
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ISBN:
9780674979420
9780674298361
Physical Description:
329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction: Cultivating wildness -- Reservations, 1900-1945. Uncle Sam's reservations -- Ecology in the public service -- An outdoor laboratory -- 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"--Provided by publisher.
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