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Restoration and History - The Search for a Usable Environmental Past (Paperback)
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Restoration and History - The Search for a Usable Environmental Past (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
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Once a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to
emulate the old, or else plant designer forests to satisfy our
immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or simply
create them? How does the past shed light on our environmental
efforts, and how does the present influence our environmental
goals? Can we predict the future of restoration? This book explores
how a consideration of time and history can improve the practice of
restoration. There is a past of restoration, as well as past
assumptions about restoration, and such assumptions have political
and social implications. Governments around the world are willing
to spend billions on restoration projects - in the Everglades,
along the Rhine River, in the South China Sea - without
acknowledging that former generations have already wrestled with
repairing damaged ecosystems, that there have been many kinds of
former ecosystems, and that there are many former ways of
understanding such systems. This book aims to put the dimension of
time back into our understanding of environmental efforts. Historic
ecosystems can serve as models for our restorative efforts, if we
can just describe such ecosystems. What conditions should be
brought back, and do such conditions represent new natures or
better pasts? A collective answer is given in these pages - and it
is not a unified answer.
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