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Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is one of the most promising approaches to conservation. This book explores the promise of restoration, both as a way of reversing environmental damage and as a context for negotiating our relationship with nature.

Table of 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

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/02/2012
      ISBN13: 9780520272705, 978-0520272705
      ISBN10: 0520272706
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is one of the most promising approaches to conservation. This book explores the promise of restoration, both as a way of reversing environmental damage and as a context for negotiating our relationship with nature.

      Table of 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

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