Restoration and history
Subtitle: the search for a usable environmental past
By: edited by Marcus Hall.
Contributors: Hall, Marcus, 1959-
Series: Routledge studies in modern history -- 8
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415871761; 9780203860373
Subjects: Restoration ecology -- Congresses; Landscape ecology -- Congresses; Historic preservation -- Congresses; Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses; Ecology -- History -- Congresses; Landscapes -- History -- Congresses; Restoration ecology -- Case studies -- Congresses; Landscape ecology -- Case studies -- Congresses; Historic preservation -- Case studies -- Congresses; Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Case studies -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses; Case studies
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.

Papers from a meeting of an interdisciplinary group of ecologists, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers held July 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tempo and mode in restoration / Marcus Hall; title: Restoration in history; title: Reflections on Humpty-Dumpty ecology / David Lowenthal; title: Spontaneous rewilding of the Apostle Islands / James Feldman; title: Changing forests, moving targets in Finland / Timo Myllyntaus; title: Sidebar: Clementsian restoration in Yosemite / William Rowley; title: History in restoration; title: Does the past matter in Scottish woodland restoration? / Mairi J. Stewart; title: Palaeoecology, management, and restoration in the Scottish Highlands / Althea Davies; title: Conservation lessons from the Holocene record in "natural" and "cultural" landscapes / Nicki J. Whitehouse; title: The shifting baseline syndrome in restoration ecology / Frans Vera; title: Regardening and the rest / Chris Smout; title: Sidebar: Reforestation, restoration, and the birth of the industrial tree farm / Emily K. Brock; title: Restore to what? : selecting target states; title: Informing ecological restoration in a coastal context / Anita Guerrini & Jenifer E. Dugan; title: South Yorkshire fens : past, present, and future / Ian Rotherham & Keith Harrison; title: Uneasy relationships between ecology, history, and restoration / Jan E Dizard; title: Sidebar: Designing a restoration mega-project for New York / Mark B. Bain; title: What to restore? : selecting initial states; title: Reflooding the Japanese rice paddy / David Sprague & Nobusuke Iwasaki; title: American Indian restoration / David Tomblin; title: Restoring for cultural-ecological sustainability in Arizona and Connecticut / David G. Casagrande & Miguel Vasquez; title: Models for renaturing brownfield areas / Lynn M. Westphal, Paul H. Gobster, & Matthias Gross; title: Sidebar: Conflicting restoration goals in the San Francisco Bay / Laura A. Watt; title: Changing concepts in restoration; title: Nature without nurture? / Kathy Hodder & James Bullock; title: Toward a multiple vision of ecological restoration / Josef Keulartz; title: Rewilding the restorer / David Kidner; title: Implementation : rewilding, regardening & renaturing; title: Implementing river restoration projects / Daniel McCool; title: Cloning in restorative perspective / Eileen Crist; title: NLIMBY : No Lions In My Backyard / C. Josh Donlan & Harry W. Greene; title: Conclusions; title: Restoring dirt under the fingernails / Eric Higgs.