Ecological Restoration "A Global Challenge"

A Global Challenge

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ISBN:9780521877114
Editorial: Cambridge University Press
Fecha de la edición:2010
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Nº Pág.:318
Idiomas:Inglés,Ingles

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Ecological restoration projects seek to recover the natural functioning of degraded ecosystems, most often areas disturbed by human large scale projects such as agriculture developments, road building, mining and urban sprawl. While scientists focus on the ecological basis of habitat repair, practitioners, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and local people, tend to worry about social, economic, cultural and political aspects. The value of ecological restoration is discussed here with examples including tropical forests in Vietnam and Australia; degraded environments in China as a paradigm of global issues; the restoration of wetlands and the coastal zone and how to proceed with urban developments. The author also uniquely assesses how ecological restoration can be used against the impacts of climate change. In addition to strategies for extending ecological restoration at global scale, it provides useful ideas and tools for the everyday work of professionals,researchers and students.

List of Abbreviations
Pt. I Global perspectives for ecological restoration
1 The challenges of humanity in the twenty-first century and the role of ecological restoration by Francisco A. Comin
2 The global carbon cycle: current research and uncertainties in the sources and sinks of carbon by Dario Papale and Riccardo Valentini
3 Using international carbon markets to finance forest restoration by Johannes Ebeling and Malika Virah-Sawmy and Pedro Moura Costa
4 The value of a restored earth and its contribution to a sustainable and desirable future by Robert Costanza
5 Focal restoration by Eric Higgs
6 Ethical dimensions of ecological restoration by Rebecca L. Vidra and Theodore H. Shear
Pt. II Towards the practice of ecological restoration at global scale
7 Undertaking forest restoration on a landscape scale in the humid tropics: matching theory and practice in developed and developing countries by David Lamb
8 Land degradation and ecological restoration in China by Bojie Fu, Dong Niu and Yihe Lu and Guohua Liu and Wenwu Zhao
9 Conservation, restoration and creation of wetlands: a global perspective by William J. Mitsch
10 Uses, abuses and restoration of the coastal zone by Francisco A. Comin and Jordi Serra and Jorge A. Herrera
11 Spatial ecological solutions to mesh nature and people: Boston suburb, Barcelona region, and other urban regions by Richard T. T. Forman
12 The role of ecological modelling in ecosystem restoration by Sven Erik Jorgensen
13 Restoration as a bridge for cooperation and peace by Amos Brandeis
Index
Colour plates appear between pages 112 and 113