The sunflower forest : ecological restoration and the new communion with nature /

"Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most promising approaches to conservation. In this book, William R. Jordan III, who coined the term "restoration e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jordan, William R., III, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
Temas:
Restoration ecology.
Réhabilitation (Écologie)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Restoration ecology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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