| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Discovered ignorance: recognizing the problem -- 1. Ken-O-Sha's geologic past and the Plaster Creek Watershed today --2. Earliest watershed inhabitants and the arrival of the Ottawa -- Part 2. The history of Plaster Creek: acknowledging our complicity -- 3. Interactions between the Ottawa and European immigrants -- 4. European settlement in West Michigan and the impact on Plaster Creek -- 5. Worldview contrasts and ecological fallout -- Part 3. The new story of Plaster Creek: committing to restoration and reparations -- 6. The emergence of Plaster Creek Stewards -- 7. Developing engaged citizens through place-based education -- 8. Assessing the problems with applied research -- 9. Reconciling the human-nature relationship through on-the-ground restoration -- 10. Loving our downstream neighbor - a call for environmental justice -- 11. Engaging faith communities -- 12. Shaping future environmental leaders -- 13. An invitation to the work of reconciliation ecology everywhere -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Like many American urban waterways, Ken-O-Sha has been in decline for nearly 200 years. Once life-supporting, the area now known as Plaster Creek is life-threatening. In this book scholars and environmentalists Gail Gunst Heffner and David P. Warners explore the area's ecological, social, spiritual, and economic history to determine what caused the damage, as well as more recent efforts to repair it. Heffner and Warners provide insight into the concept of reconciliation ecology, as enacted through their group, the Plaster Creek Stewards, and other community members who refused to accept a status quo of a contaminated creek unfit for children's play, severely reduced biological diversity, and environmental injustice. Their work reveals reconciliation ecology needs to focus not only on repairing damaged human-nature relationships but also on the relationships between groups of people, including between Indigenous people and the descendants of European colonists"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Watersheds -- Michigan -- Kent County -- History
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Watershed restoration -- Michigan -- Kent County -- Citizen participation
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Ottawa Indians -- Michigan -- Kent County -- History
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Environmental justice -- Michigan -- Kent County
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Reconciliation -- Michigan -- Kent County
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| SUBJECT |
Plaster Creek (Kent County, Mich.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2023046727
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Plaster Creek Watershed (Kent County, Mich.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2023046728
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Kent County (Mich.) -- Environmental conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Warners, David P., author.
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| ISBN |
9781609177621 |
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1609177622 |
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