| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 601 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)) |
| Contents |
Ecological Restoration: Moving Forward Using Lessons Learned -- Part I. Restoring Ecosystems and Species -- Grassy Community Restoration -- Restoring Tropical Forests: Lessons Learned from Case Studies on Three Continents -- Ecological Approaches to Forest Restoration: Lessons Learned from Tropical Wet Asia -- Temperate Forest Restoration -- Just Add Water? Wetland and Riparian Restoration -- Using Degree of Natural Regeneration Potential to Guide Selection of Plant Community Restoration Approaches at a Restoration Site -- Rare and Threatened Plant Conservation Translocations: Lessons Learned and Future Directions -- Part II. Restoring Highly Human-Modified Systems -- Roadside Restoration with Native Plants: Partnering for Success in the Pacific Northwest of the USA -- Issues Embedded in the Human Context of Urban Landscape Restoration -- A New Gold Standard in Mine Site Restoration to Drive Effective Restoration Outcomes -- Part III. Other Important Aspects of Restoration -- Strengthening the Global Native Seed Supply Chain for Ecological Restoration -- Restoration Genetics – A Consideration of Lessons and Opportunities -- Part IV. Socio-Economic Aspects of Restoration -- Ecological Restoration: A Critical Social and Political Practice -- The Economics of Ecological Restoration -- Part V. Final Synthesis -- A Final Word from the Editors |
| Summary |
Ecological restoration, although a relatively new endeavour compared to other disciplines, has gained significant momentum during the last decade as accelerating global change becomes more apparent. It is now widely accepted by the scientific community that to avoid further devastating effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, humanity must determinedly move more to protect and restore natural ecosystems. Many restoration efforts of the past have been ad hoc, site and situation-specific and have often failed to achieve desired outcomes, but over the last decade, many countries are allocating increasingly significant amounts of financial investment towards restoration with the goal of achieving more systematic and predictable outcomes. Today, activities related to restoring ecosystems, natural assets and biodiversity are a global focus. This book covers a wide range of topics related to ecological restoration including for grasslands, wetlands, temperate and tropical forests and arid zones. Importantly, it also focuses on ecological restoration in human-disturbed landscapes such as for urban areas, farmlands, mine sites and transport corridors. It highlights the necessity for evidence-based approaches that are both nuanced and complementary with prescriptions for people-based restoration, that is socially inclusive and cognisant of historic and current community sentiment. Ambitious landscape and continental scale targets for ecological restoration have been set across the globe. However, without practical guidelines developed from restoration evaluations from the recent past to follow, future efforts are unlikely to be successful, nor -expected targets met. To that end, this book reviews and highlights a large number and variety of restoration stories from around the world. Most are presented as reader-friendly case studies, that feature innovative and systematic techniques for undertaking species-rich ecological restoration. Together they provide inspiration for current and future professionals and offer unique glimpses into state-of-the-art practice for this critically important discipline |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Restoration ecology.
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Restoration ecology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Florentine, Singarayer, editor.
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Gibson-Roy, Paul, editor
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Dixon, Kingsley Wayne, editor
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Broadhurst, Linda, editor
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| ISBN |
9783031254123 |
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3031254120 |
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