Ecological restoration and environmental change : renewing damaged ecosystems / / Stuart K. Allison

• Autore: Allison Stuart K.
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 639.9
• Soggetto topico: Restoration ecology; Pollution - Environmental aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments: A beginning; 1 You can't not choose; 2 How did we get here? A brief history of ecological restoration; 3 Restoration is an active choice; 4 Climate change: Is rapid pace and magnitude a bridge too far for ecological restoration?; 5 Novel ecosystems: A new wrinkle for ecological restoration; 6 Geographical variation in attitudes to ecological restoration and why it matters; 7 Renewed restoration: Building a middle path toward a restored earth; 8 Building the restored future: Making the renewal happen ; ReferencesIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a polluted river or degraded landscape is restored from its damaged state, what is the appropriate outcome? With climate change now threatening greater disruption to the stability of ecosystems, how should restoration ecologists respond? Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change addresses and challenges some of these issues which question the core values of the science and practice of restoration ecology. It analyze
• Titolo autorizzato: Ecological restoration and environmental change
• ISBN: 1-136-46635-5; 1-283-52048-6; 9786613832931; 0-203-12803-6; 1-136-46636-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790334203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II