Our once and future planet : restoring the world in the climate change century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodworth, Paddy, 1951-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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?.