Title Wild by design : the rise of ecological restoration / Laura J. Martin

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction: Cultivating wildness -- Part I. Reservations, 1900-1945: Uncle Sam's reservations -- Ecology in the public service -- An outdoor laboratory -- Part II. Recovery, 1945-1970: Atoms for ecology -- The specter of irreversible change -- Part III. Regulation, 1970-2010: Extinct is forever -- The mood of wild America -- An ecological Tomorrowland -- Epilogue: Designing the future Summary "Restoration has been a touchstone of United States environmentalism since the beginning of the twentieth century. Diverging from popular ideas about preservation, which romanticized nature as an Eden to be left untouched by human hands, and conservation, the managed use of natural resources, restoration emerged as a 'third way.' Restorationists grappled with the deepest puzzles of human care for life on earth: How to intervene in nature for nature's own sake? What are the natural baselines that humans should aim to restore? Is it possible to design nature without destroying wildness? Laura J. Martin shows how, over time, amateur and professional ecologists, interest groups, and government agencies coalesced around a mode of environmental management that sought to respect the world-making, and even the decision-making, of other species. At the same time, restoration science reshaped material environments in ways that powerfully influenced what we understand the wild to be."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Climate change Conservation biology Ecological society of America Endangered species Environmental history Radioecology Restoration ecology Rewilding Species reintroduction environmental conservation environmental protection environmental studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Laura J. Martin is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College. She is a past fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. She has written for Scientific American, Slate, Environmental History, Environmental Humanities, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and other publications Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 29, 2022) Subject Restoration ecology -- United States -- History -- 20th century Restoration ecology -- United States -- History -- 21st century Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History -- 20th century Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History -- 21st century Environmental responsibility -- United States -- History -- 20th century Environmental responsibility -- United States -- History -- 21st century NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection Environmental responsibility Nature -- Effect of human beings on Restoration ecology United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674275836 0674275837 9780674275829 0674275829

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