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Beyond Preservation : Restoring and Inventing Landscapes /

Addressing current ecological issues, from the philosophical to the practical, Frederick Turner and William R. Jordan III Here offer a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between the humans and nature. Challenging the idea that preserving nature is the only solution to environmental prob...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Pletsch, Carl, De Luce, Judith, Baldwin, A. Dwight
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ecological preservation versus restoration and invention / A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr., Judith de Luce, and Carl Pletsch
  • "Sunflower Forest": Ecological restoration as the basis for a new environmental paradigm / William R. Jordan III
  • The invented landscape / Frederick Turner
  • Restoration or preservation? Reflections on a clash of environmental philosophies / G. Stanley Kane
  • Humans assert sovereignty over nature / Carl Pletsch
  • Landscape restoration: More than ritual and gardening / Gene E. Willeke
  • Changing worldviews and landscape restoration / Dora G. Lodwick
  • Restoration ecology: Lessons yet to be learned / Gary W. Barrett
  • Art and insight in remnant native ecosystems / Orie L. Loucks
  • Natural forest management of tropical rain forests: What will be the "Nature" of the managed forest? / David L. Gorchov
  • Identifying a strategy for forest restoration in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya / Kimberly E. Medley.
  • Remaking and restoring the landscape of Dare County, North Carolina / John E. Wierwille
  • Rehabilitation of land stripped for coal in Ohio--reclamation, restoration, or creation? / A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr.
  • Concrete beasts/plaster gardens / Ellen Price
  • In the beginning: Creation, restoration, and Turner's Gensis / Judith de Luce
  • The little hut on the prairie: The ritual uses of restoration / Ann Cline
  • The poetics and politics of prairie restoration / Constance Pierce
  • Gardening with J. Crew: The political economy of restoration ecology / Jack Temple Kirby
  • Sunflower seeds / William R. Jordan III
  • The invented landscape (reprise) / Frederick Turner
  • Conclusion: Constructing a new ecological paradigm / A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr., Judith de Luce, and Carl Pletsch.