Nature by design : people, natural process, and ecological restoration / Eric Higgs.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A Tale of Two Wildernesses: Jasper National Park, Meet Disney World
- The Bear in the Kitchen
- The Palisade
- A Landscape of Threats
- Freak Landscapes
- Restoring an Idea or a Place?
- Wilderness as Theme
- Colonizing the Imagination
- Celebration?
- One Wilderness or Two?
- 2. Boundary Conditions
- Florid(ian) Images
- Meandering Ambitions: The Kissimmee River (Florida) Restoration
- Beyond the Ecological Curtain: The Morava River Restoration, Slovak Republic
- Gardening or Restoration? The Robert Starbird Dorney Garden, Ontario, Canada
- Normal History
- Contingency and Ideals
- 3. What is Ecological Restoration?
- Words and Taxomony
- The Duck Test
- A Legacy of Definitions
- Process and Product
- Assisted Recovery
- Management
- Historical Range of Variability
- Sustainable Cultural Practices
- Ecological Integrity
- The Evolution of Words and Worlds
- 4. Historicity and Reference in Ecological Restoration
- Photographing the Past
- Nostalgia
- Narrative Continuity
- Place
- Time Depth
- Reference Conditions
- Taking History Seriously
- 5. Denaturing Restoration
- Lines across the Path
- Commodification
- A Taut Line: What Kind of Science Do Ecological Restorationists Require?
- The Commodification of Nature
- The Commodification of Practice
- The Promise and Problems of Ecological Restoration
- 6. Focal Restoration
- Discovery Island
- Ecocultural Restoration
- Focal Restoration
- Ritual and Restoration
- Participation in Restoration
- Landscape Coevolution
- 7. Nature by Design
- Remembrances of Landscapes Past
- The Ambiguity of Design
- Wild Design
- Restoration as Conversation: A Storied Landscape.
