Generation Restoration : How to Fix Our Relationship Crisis with Mother Nature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christophersen, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Human beings--Effect of environment on.

Human beings.

Human ecology.

Regeneration (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

Discover and define a new relationship between humanity and nature In Generation Restoration: How to Fix Our Relationship Crisis with Mother Nature Vice President of Climate Action at Salesforce, Tim Christophersen, delivers a clarion call for a new kind of global ecological literacy.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Dr. Jane Goodall's Foreword for Generation Restoration

Chapter 1 Squandering Our Natural Wealth

Restoration in One Generation

Nature Gone Bust

The Flywheel of Life

Meet the European Eel

Harvest Season

Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Tipping Point

Tipping Points of No Return

The Great Dust Bowl

Whales to the Rescue

Resilience Starts with Us

A 10 Percent World

Staging Nature's Comeback

Chapter 2 A Century of Ecology

Ecology: The Science of Our Only Home

Ecological Fever Pitch

Uncharted Territory

A Century of Ecology

Restoration to the Rescue

Rebound

A New Century of Ecology

Ecological Literacy for Everyone

Where Does My Food Come From?

Where Does My Water Come From?

How Does Nature Help My Neighborhood?

Which Species Live Around Me?

Rain Makes Forests, and Forests Make Rain

Forests as Continental Air Cooling Fans

Save the Forest, Save the Rain

Tropical Forests Forever

Nature as a Multisolver

Chapter 3 Nature Is Us: A Tale of Reciprocity

Nature Is Many, Nature Is One

The Jenga Game

Nature Is Us

Human Taxonomy

You Are Never Alone

Nature Redefined

Are We Above Nature?

The Clouds of "Enlightenment"

All Hail Nature, the Divine?

Counterproductive Conservation

A 30 Percent World

Ultra-High-Net-Worth Nature

A New Hope

Coming Home

Words Matter

Upgrading the Western Worldview

So, Are We Part of Nature?

Chapter 4 The Value of Nature

"It's the Ecology, Stupid!"

The True Wealth of Nations

The True Costs of Nature Loss

The Costs to Restore Earth

A New Economy Emerges

Running Dry

Honeyland

The Indoor Generation

The Oldest New Financial Asset Class

If You Can't Fight Them, Join Them

A Billion Here, A Billion There.

Nature to the Climate Rescue

The Carbon Markets

The Ecopreneurs

Nature as Critical Infrastructure

A Restoration Boom

Big, Bold Bets for Nature Finance

Brazil's Restoration Boom

All the Money in the World

Let's Do the Right Thing

Beware of Your Motive

Chapter 5 The World Plus 10 Percent

Take No More Than Half

Convergence

A Movement Is Born: Acción Andina

A Magical Tree

The Roots of Acción Andina

A Culture of Reciprocity

"It's a Party!"

More Than Trees

The Scale of an Empire

Imagining a Better Tomorrow

Living in Harmony with Nature: Satoyama

The World's Largest Protected Area Network: Natura 2000

Manage with Nature

The Guardians of Nature

The Indigenous Effect

Lessons from the Land

Respect for Mother Nature

The Force of Nature

Human Rights and Nature's Rights

The River's Human Face

A New Relationship

Chapter 6 A Trillion Trees

The Power of Trees

Tree Huggers

Resetting Our Relationship with Forests

The Trillion Trees Initiative

The Roots of a Trillion Trees

Nature's Avengers

A Rights-Based Approach

Perfect as the Enemy of Good

Trailblazer

Resilient Nature, Resilient Business

A Landscape Approach

Learning from the Forest

To Plant or Not to Plant?

Food for Goats

Forests Under Scrutiny

Quality Over Quantity

Is It Too Late?

A Race Against Time

Spreading Like Wildfire

Chapter 7 World Restoration Flagships

Brazil's Atlantic Forest

A Forest Garden

A Modern Rainforest Stages a Comeback

3D Agriculture: An Example from São Paulo

Achieving World Restoration Flagship Status

Farther Than the Eye Can See

The World Restoration Flagship Concept

The Arc of Restoration in the Brazilian Amazon

Community-Based Natural Farming in India

A New Restoration Economy in South Africa.

The End of the Road

Goats or Restoration?

Building with Nature in Indonesia

Restoring Planet Earth

Chapter 8 Stubborn Optimists

The Future We Want

Optimism Is Mandatory

More Bloom, Less Gloom

Go Slow to Move Fast

A Journey Forward to Nature

Putting Culture Back into Agriculture

The Soil Food Web

More Than Dirt

Nature Returns to Our Farm

Generation Restoration from Local to Global

Epilogue: The Freedom to Choose

Taking Action

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

EULA.

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ISBN:

1-394-32823-0

9781394328239

OCLC:

1544720264