Contents Notes |
Weeding Key Biscayne -- The challenge of reinhabitation -- Paradigms of community -- Awareness: restoration as a way of seeing, and as work and play -- The exchange: restoration as repayment, and the gift of ecological immortality -- Value and make-believe: a primer on performance -- Sacrifice and celebration: restoration as a performing art -- Sacrifice and celebration: restoration as a performing art -- Conservation and community: restoration, the environment, and environmentalism. Examines how ecological restoration can reverse environmental damage and conserve forests, prairies, and wetlands. Describes ways to guide damaged ecosystems back to their natural, healthy condition, and provides context for the relationship humans have with nature. |