Restored to Earth

Restored to Earth
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Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781589016835
ISBN-13 : 1589016831
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Book Synopsis Restored to Earth by : Gretel Van Wieren

Download or read book Restored to Earth written by Gretel Van Wieren and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological restoration integrates the science and art of repairing ecosystems damaged by human activities. Despite relatively little attention from environmental ethicists, restoration projects continue to gain significance, drawing on citizen volunteers and large amounts of public funds, providing an important model of responding to ecological crisis. Projects range from the massive, multi-billion dollar Kissimmee River project; restoring 25,000 acres of Everglades' wetlands; to the $30 million effort to restore selected wetlands in industrial Brownfield sites in Chicago's south side Lake Calumet area; to the reintroduction of tall grass prairie ecosystems in various communities in the Midwest. Restored to Earth provides the first comprehensive examination of the religious and ethical dimensions and significance of contemporary restoration practice, an ethical framework that advances the field of environmental ethics in a more positive, action-oriented, experience-based direction. Van Wieren brings together insights and examples from restoration ecology, environmental ethics, religious studies, and conservation and Christian thought, as well as her own personal experiences in ecological restoration, to propose a new restoration ethic grounded in the concrete, hands-on experience of humans working as partners with the land.


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