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Beyond preservation : restoring and inventing landscapes / A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr., Judith De Luce, and Carl Pletsch, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Restoration ecology--Congresses.
- Restoration ecology.
- Landscape protection--Congresses.
- Landscape protection.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Congresses.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Addressing current ecological issues, from the philosophical to the practical, Frederick Turner and William R. Jordan III Here offer a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between the humans and nature. Challenging the idea that preserving nature is the only solution to environmental problems, they advocate going beyond preservation to restoration and actual construction of our landscape. Fifteen respondents reflect on the implications and consequences of Turner's and Jordan's bold proposals.Contributors include Gary W. Barrett, Ann Cline, David L. Gorchov, William Jordan III, G. St
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I: BEYOND PRESERVATION; PART II: THEORY; PART III: PRACTICE; PART IV: IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES; PART V: RESPONSES; Conclusion: Constructing a New Ecological Paradigm; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816685486
- 0816685487
- OCLC:
- 476093434
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