| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1. Weeding Key Biscayne; 2. The Challenge of Reinhabitation; 3. Paradigms of Community; 4. Awareness: Restoration as a Way of Seeing, and as Work and Play; 5. The Exchange: Restoration as Repayment, and the Gift of Ecological Immortality; 6. Value and Make-Believe: A Primer on Performance; 7. Sacrifice and Celebration: Restoration as a Performing Art; 8. Conservation and Community: Restoration, the Environment, and Environmentalism; Notes; Selected Readings; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. |
| Summary |
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 ecology," and who is widely respected as an intellectual leader in the field, outlines a vision for a restoration-based environmentalism that has emerged from his work over twenty-five years. Drawing on a provocative range of thinkers, from anthropologists Victor Turner, Roy Rappaport, and Mary Douglas to liter. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Restoration ecology.
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Restoration ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jordan, William R., III. Sunflower Forest : Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 9780520233201 |
| ISBN |
9780520928480 (electronic book) |
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0520928482 (electronic book) |
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0520233204 |
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9780520233201 |
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