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Restoration and History The Search for a Usable Environmental Past

By: Marcus Hall(Editor)
329 pages, 13 b/w photos, 29 b/w illustrations, 7 tables
Publisher: Routledge
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About this book

Once a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to emulate the old, or else plant designer forests to satisfy our immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or simply create them? How does the past shed light on our environmental efforts, and how does the present influence our environmental goals? Can we predict the future of restoration?

Restoration and History explores how a consideration of time and history can improve the practice of restoration. There is a past of restoration, as well as past assumptions about restoration, and such assumptions have political and social implications. Governments around the world are willing to spend billions on restoration projects – in the Everglades, along the Rhine River, in the South China Sea – without acknowledging that former generations have already wrestled with repairing damaged ecosystems, that there have been many kinds of former ecosystems, and that there are many former ways of understanding such systems. Restoration and History aims to put the dimension of time back into our understanding of environmental efforts. Historic ecosystems can serve as models for our restorative efforts, if we can just describe such ecosystems. What conditions should be brought back, and do such conditions represent new natures or better pasts? A collective answer is given in these pages – and it is not a unified answer.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I
1. Tempo and Mode in Restoration. Marcus Hall. Restoration in History
2. Reflections on Humpty-Dumpty Ecology. David Lowenthal
3. Spontaneous Rewilding of the Apostle Islands. James Feldman
4. Changing Forests, Moving Targets in Finland. Timo Myllyntaus
5. Sidebar: Clementsian Restoration in Yosemite. William Rowley. History in Restoration

Part II
6. Does the Past Matter in Scottish Woodland Restoration? Mairi J. Stewart
7. Palaeoecology, Management, and Restoration in the Scottish Highlands. Althea Davies
8. Conservation Lessons from the Holocene Record in "Natural" and "Cultural" Landscapes. Nicki J. Whitehouse
9. The Shifting Baseline Syndrome in Restoration Ecology. Frans Vera
10. Regardening and the Rest. Chris Smout
11. Sidebar: Reforestation, Restoration, and the Birth of the Industrial Tree Farm. Emily K. Brock. Restore To What? Selecting Target States

Part III
12. Informing Ecological Restoration in a Coastal Context. Anita Guerrini & Jenifer E. Dugan
13. South Yorkshire Fens: Past, Present, and Future. Ian Rotherham & Keith Harrison
14. Uneasy Relationships between Ecology, History, and Restoration. Jan E Dizard
15. Sidebar: Designing a Restoration Mega-Project for New York. Mark B. Bain. What To Restore? Selecting Initial States

Part IV
16. Reflooding the Japanese Rice Paddy. David Sprague & Nobusuke Iwasaki
17. American Indian Restoration. David Tomblin
18. Restoring for Cultural-Ecological Sustainability in Arizona and Connecticut. David G. Casagrande & Miguel Vasquez
19. Models for Renaturing Brownfield Areas. Lynn M. Westphal, Paul H. Gobster, & Matthias Gross
20. Sidebar: Conflicting Restoration Goals in the San Francisco Bay. Laura A. Watt. Changing Concepts In Restoration

Part V
21. Nature Without Nurture? Kathy Hodder & James Bullock
22. Toward a Multiple Vision of Ecological Restoration. Josef Keulartz
23. Rewilding the Restorer. David Kidner. Implementation: Rewilding, Regardening, & Renaturing

Part VI
24. Implementing River Restoration Projects. Daniel McCool
25. Cloning in Restorative Perspective. Eileen Crist
26. NLIMBY: No Lions In My Backyard. C. Josh Donlan & Harry W. Greene. Conclusions

Conclusions
27. Restoring Dirt Under the Fingernails. Eric Higgs

Contributors
References
Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Marcus Hall is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah. His most recent book, Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration was published by Virginia University Press in 2005. He is winner of the Antoinette Forrester Downing book award, and was awarded a fellowship by the Smithsonian Institute in 2007.

By: Marcus Hall(Editor)
329 pages, 13 b/w photos, 29 b/w illustrations, 7 tables
Publisher: Routledge
Media reviews

"Reconnecting people to nature is all to the good, and history can help to make the process more meaningful and effective ecologically."
– Brian Donahue, Brandeis University

"[T]he volume features geographers, sociologists, environmental scientists, historians, anthropologists and paleoecologists working on North America, Europe and East Asia. Readers will be pleased by their skilful interrogation of the idea of restoration and the volume's attentiveness to real-world projects. [...] Restoration and History exemplifies the benefits of cross-disciplinary dialogue."
– Joshua Specht (Harvard University), Environment and History

"The authors present intriguing ideas that force a larger discussion among academics, practitioners, and students about what it means to live on this on planet."
– James E. Sherow, Kansas State University

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