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- Book Title
- Wild by Design : the Rise of Ecological Restoration
- Publication Name
- Wild by Design
- Title
- Wild by Design
- Subtitle
- The Rise of Ecological Restoration
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0674979427
- EAN
- 9780674979420
- ISBN
- 9780674979420
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- Nature, Science, History
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / 20th Century, Life Sciences / Biology
- Release Date
- 17/05/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 1in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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An environmental historian delves into the history, science, and philosophy of a paradoxical pursuit: the century-old quest to design natural places and create wild species. Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive species, build wetlands, and reintroduce species driven from their habitats. But restoration has not always been so intensively practiced. It began as the pastime of a few wildflower enthusiasts and the first practitioners of the new scientific discipline of ecology. Restoration has been a touchstone of US environmentalism since the beginning of the twentieth century. Diverging from popular ideas about preservation, which romanticized nature as an Eden to be left untouched by human hands, and conservation, the managed use of natural resources, restoration emerged as a "third way." Restorationists grappled with the deepest puzzles of human care for life on earth: How to intervene in nature for nature's own sake? What are the natural baselines that humans should aim to restore? Is it possible to design nature without destroying wildness? Laura J. Martin shows how, over time, amateur and professional ecologists, interest groups, and government agencies coalesced around a mode of environmental management that sought to respect the world-making, and even the decision-making, of other species. At the same time, restoration science reshaped material environments in ways that powerfully influenced what we understand the wild to be. In Wild by Design , restoration's past provides vital knowledge for climate change policy. But Martin also offers something more--a meditation on what it means to be wild and a call for ecological restoration that is socially just.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674979427
ISBN-13
9780674979420
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321473078
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wild by Design : the Rise of Ecological Restoration
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / 20th Century, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Nature, Science, History
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
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Qh104.M38 2022
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Can we repair the ecological damage that we've done? As Laura Martin observes, no question today could be more pressing, or more uncertain. Wild by Design is a fascinating book--far-reaching, deeply researched, and probing., Wild by Design 's biggest gift is to 'denaturalize' restoration as it is done today, showing that concepts that can seem essential to the practice, such as eradicating invasive species or returning landscapes to some pre-disturbance state, have been insignificant for much of the movement's history., An outstandingly well-researched and deeply thoughtful account of the way that the United States has attempted to negotiate its relationship to wild plants and animals...an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the implications of our interventions., Wild by Design deserves a wide readership. It not only complements the foundational analyses of influential historians of extinction and ecology, it also contributes in vital ways to the ongoing work that all ecologists and environmentalists need to do--confronting the problematic social assumptions that still pervade many aspects of ecological science and environmental management., This is a superb book. Laura Martin's research takes us where no restoration literature has gone before, asking, 'Who gets to decide where and how wildlife management occurs?' Martin tackles this question with unmatched clarity and insight, illuminating the crucial discussions we must have to secure a future with thriving natural species and spaces., A comprehensive history of the practice of 'ecological restoration,' or human assistance in recovering a damaged world. Martin both eschews blanket optimism and refuses to fall victim to doomsday cynicism around climate change. By examining the precedents for restorative ecology, she illuminates how the development of the field influences contemporary practices, and how ghosts from the historical record haunt our ecological future...Its historical contributions alone...mark Wild by Design as a major achievement., Reaching back over a century in this intricate, revelatory book, Martin shows that just as we have to reckon with the physical legacy of past ecological degradation, we must also face the social, cultural, and political legacy of past ecological restoration... Wild by Design will be a foundational work for scholars of restoration history or politics. Like ecological restoration as a field, this book is valuable both to its disciplines and to the public--it is timely, engaging, and entertaining., What does it mean to care for a wild species? In this provocative and fascinating book, Laura Martin grapples with this question by examining the boundaries of human intervention and wildness. As we face a rapidly changing planet, Martin's clear-sighted, intelligent analysis offers hope that by recognizing the complex history of restoration, we can make way for its promising future.
Lccn
2021-041664
Dewey Decimal
508.73
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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