Ecological Restoration: Principles, Values, and Structure of an Emerging Profession

By James Aronson and Andre F. Clewell

Book Overview

Ecological restoration is no longer a niche practice--it's a global, interdisciplinary movement uniting scientists, land stewards, policymakers, and community volunteers around the urgent task of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597261696
• ISBN13: 9781597261692
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Humanity the Destroyer - and the reviver?

Humanity has been called a destroyer of various ecological habitats like forests, rain forests, and jungles. But Humanity can also be the healer of those same places. "Ecological Restoration: Principles, Values, and Structure of an Emerging Profession" demonstrates and explains how humanity is turning its habits around to recover the lost forests from centuries of neglect. Enhanced with appendixes, glossaries, indexes, and more, "Ecological Restoration: Principles, Values, and Structure of an Emerging Profession" is highly recommended to nature and environmental studies shelves and to anyone with an interest in the optimistic side of humanity's interactions with nature.