Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change

ISBN-13: 9780367461706 / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

Stuart K. Allison

Opis

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change presents an introduction to the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment.

Spis treści

1. You can’t not choose
2. How did we get here? A brief history of ecological restoration
3. Restoration is an active choice
4. Climate change: is the rapid pace and magnitude a bridge too far for ecological restoration?
5. Novel ecosystems: a new wrinkle for ecological restoration
6. Renewed restoration: building a middle path toward a restored Earth
7. Building the restored future: making the renewal happen

O autorze

Stuart K. Allison is Watson Bartlett Professor of Biology and Conservation, and Director of the Green Oaks Field Research Center at Knox College, USA. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration (with Stephen D. Murphy, 2017).