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Wild by Design - The Rise of Ecological Restoration (Hardcover)
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Wild by Design - The Rise of Ecological Restoration (Hardcover)
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An environmental historian delves into the history, science, and
philosophy of a paradoxical pursuit: the century-old quest to
design natural places and create wild species. Environmental
restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern.
Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other
institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive
species, build wetlands, and reintroduce species driven from their
habitats. But restoration has not always been so intensively
practiced. It began as the pastime of a few wildflower enthusiasts
and the first practitioners of the new scientific discipline of
ecology. Restoration has been a touchstone of US environmentalism
since the beginning of the twentieth century. Diverging from
popular ideas about preservation, which romanticized nature as an
Eden to be left untouched by human hands, and conservation, the
managed use of natural resources, restoration emerged as a "third
way." Restorationists grappled with the deepest puzzles of human
care for life on earth: How to intervene in nature for nature's own
sake? What are the natural baselines that humans should aim to
restore? Is it possible to design nature without destroying
wildness? Laura J. Martin shows how, over time, amateur and
professional ecologists, interest groups, and government agencies
coalesced around a mode of environmental management that sought to
respect the world-making, and even the decision-making, of other
species. At the same time, restoration science reshaped material
environments in ways that powerfully influenced what we understand
the wild to be. In Wild by Design, restoration's past provides
vital knowledge for climate change policy. But Martin also offers
something more-a meditation on what it means to be wild and a call
for ecological restoration that is socially just.
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