Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes

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A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch
U of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 280 ページ
The theory of preservation assumes that humans are different from and opposed to the rest of nature. The contributors to "Beyond preservation", on the other hand, explore their belief that humans are inextricably entwined with nature and therefore have an unavoidable impact on the entire ecosystem. The comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach employed by the editors addresses the possibilities of and problems with the restoration of damaged landscapes and even the invention of new ones. William R. Jordan III, a botanist by training, is committed to ecological restoration, and in the keynote essay he advocates the premises on which his theory is based. Poet and essayist Frederick Turner is fascinated with the construction of new landscapes and proposes a more rather than less ambitious human effort to shape nature. Turner contributes an essay that, together with Jordan's, serves as a cornerstone of the volume. Both Turner and Jordan urge us to use our intelligence and our creative faculties to manage nature by restoring damaged landscapes and creating mutually beneficial relationships among all species. The lead essays are followed by a series of broadly interdisciplinary critiques that confront a host of contemporary issues having to do with our attempts to preserve or restore landscapes. Individual essays address the theoretical issues entailed in restoration; examine case studies of the application of restoration/reclamation/preservation theory and techniques; and finally, reflect on the implications and consequences of environmental restoration. Taken together, these essays are as important for the questions they raise as for their individual assessments of Jordan's and Turner's programmatic statements. A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr., is Professor of Geology at Miami University. Judith De Luce is Professor of Classics, affiliate in women's studies, and fellow in the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University. Carl Pletsch is Associate Professor of History at Miami University.

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Ecological Preservation versus Restoration and Invention
3
Ecological Restoration as the Basis for a New Environmental Paradigm
17
The Invented Landscape
35
THEORY
67
Restoration or Preservation? Reflections on a Clash of Environmental Philosophies
69
Humans Assert Sovereignty over Nature
85
More than Ritual and Gardening
90
Changing Worldviews and Landscape Restoration
97
Rehabilitation of Land Stripped for Coal in Ohio Reclamation Restoration or Creation?
181
IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES
193
Concrete BeastsPlaster Gardens
195
Creation Restoration and Turners Genesis
205
The Ritual Uses of Restoration
216
The Poetics and Politics of Prairie Restoration
226
The Political Economy of Restoration Ecology
234
RESPONSES
241

PRACTICE
111
Lessons Yet to Be Learned
113
Art and Insight in Remnant Native Ecosystems
127
What Will Be the Nature of the Managed Forest?
136
Identifying a Strategy for Forest Restoration in the Tana River National Primate Reserve Kenya
154
Remaking and Restoring the Landscape of Dare County North Carolina
168
Sunflower Seeds
243
The Invented Landscape Reprise
251
Constructing a New Ecological Paradigm
260
Contributors
265
Index
271
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