Our once and future planet : restoring the world in the climate change century /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Plots, five prairies, reflooding a delta
- The cranes are flying again
- From Necedah to Zaragoza via St. Louis: a restoration learning curve
- Greening the rainbow nation: saving the world on a single budget?
- Awkward questions from the windy city: why restore? to what? for whom?
- Keeping nature out? restoring the cultural landscape of the cinque terre
- The last of the woods laid low? fragile green shoots in Irish forests
- Future shock: "novel ecosystems" and climate change shake restoration's
- Foundations
- Dreamtime in Gondwanaland
- Restoration on a grand scale: finding a home for 350,000 species
- Killing for conservation: the grim precondition for restoration in New Zealand
- The Mayan men (and women) who can (re)make the rain forest
- Making the black deserts bloom: bog restoration on the brink of extinction
- Walk like a chameleon: three trends, one story
- Conclusions: why restore?.