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Nature by design people, natural process, and ecological restoration

Eric Higgs 1958-

Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press c2003

Localização: EERP - Esc. Enfermagem Ribeirão Preto    (301.161 H635n )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Nature by design people, natural process, and ecological restoration
  • Autor: Eric Higgs 1958-
  • Assuntos: Restoration ecology; ECOLOGIA HUMANA; MEIO AMBIENTE (CONSERVAÇÃO); REFLORESTAMENTO
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-333)
  • Descrição: 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
  • Editor: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2003
  • Formato: xv, 341 p. ill., maps 23 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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