Restoring nature
Subtitle: perspectives from the social sciences and humanities
By: edited by Paul H. Gobster and R. Bruce Hull.
Contributors: Gobster, Paul H.; Hull, R. Bruce.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Environmental sciences -- Philosophy.; Restoration ecology.; Environmental management.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Philosophy and rationale of restoration. Restoration, community, and wilderness / William R. Jordan; title: Another look at restoration : technology and artificial nature / Eric Katz; title: Ecological restoration and the culture of nature : a pragmatic perspective / Andrew Light; title: Restoring nature in American culture : an environmental aesthetic perspective / Cheryl Foster; title: pt. 2. Conflict over which nature to restore; title: The language of nature matters : we need a more public ecology / R. Bruce Hull and David P. Robertson; title: Constructing nature as constructing science : expertise, activist science, and public conflict in the Chicago wilderness / Reid M. Helford; title: Public values, opinions, and emotions in restoration controversies / Joanne Vining, Elizabeth Tyler, and Byoung-Suk Kweon; title: Restoration, the value of participation, and the risks of professionalization / Andrew Light; title: pt. 3. Making restoration happen : process and implementation; title: Negotiating nature : making restoration happen in an urban park context / Paul H. Gobster and Susan C. Barro; title: A people-centered approach to designing and managing restoration projects : insights from understanding attachment to urban natural areas / Robert L. Ryan; title: Managing naturalness as a continuum : setting limits of acceptable change / Mark W. Brunson; title: pt. 4. Making and maintaining restored environments. The restoration experience : volunteers' motives, values, and concepts of nature / Herbert W. Schroeder; title: Psychological benefits of volunteering in stewardship programs / Robert E. Grese, Rachel Kaplan, Robert L. Ryan, and Jane Buxton; title: Lessons for restoration in the traditions of stewardship : sustainable land management in northern New Mexico / Carol Raish; title: Conclusion : Which nature? / R. Bruce Hull and David P. Robertson.