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RECORD NUMBER: 132 OF 228Main Title | Nature by design : people, natural process, and ecological restoration / | ||||||||||||||||
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Author | Higgs, Eric | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | MIT Press, | ||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2003 | ||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 50868224 | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 0262582260 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262083167 (hc. : alk. paper) | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Restoration ecology | ||||||||||||||||
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Collation | xv, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. | ||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. {321}-333). |
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Contents Notes | 1. A tale of two wilderness: Jasper National Park, meet Disney World -- The bear in the kitchen -- The palisade -- A landscape of threats -- Freak landscapes -- Restoring an idea or a place? -- Wilderness as theme -- Colonizing the imagination -- Celebration? -- One wilderness or two? -- 2. Boundary conditions -- Florid(ian) images -- Meandering ambitions: The Kissimmee River (Florida) restoration -- Beyond the ecological curtain: The Morava River restoration, Slovak Republic -- Gardening or restoration? The Robert Starbird Dorney garden, Ontario, Canada -- Normal history -- Contingency and ideals -- 3. What is ecological restoration? -- Words and taxonomy -- The duck test -- A legacy of definitions -- Process and product -- Assisted recovery -- Management -- Historical range of variability -- Sustainable cultural practices -- Ecological integrity -- The evolution of words and worlds -- 4. Historicity and reference in ecological restoration -- Photographing the past -- Nostalgia -- Narrative continuity -- Place -- Time depth -- Reference conditions -- Taking history seriously -- 5. Denaturing restoration -- Lines across the path -- Commodification -- A taut line: What kind of science do ecological restorationists require? -- The commodification of nature -- The commodification of practice -- The promise and problems of ecological restoration -- 6. Focal restoration -- Discovery Island -- Ecocultural restoration -- Focal restoration -- Ritual and restoration -- Participation in restoration -- Landscape coevolution -- 7. Nature by design -- Remembrances of landscapes past -- The ambiguity of design -- Wild design -- Restoration as conversation: A storied landscape. |