Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change: Renewing Damaged Ecosystems [Paperback]

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change presents an introduction to the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment.

Stuart K. Allison is Watson Bartlett Professor of Biology and Conservation, and Director of the Green Oaks Field Research Center at Knox College, USA. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration (with Stephen D. Murphy, 2017).

1. You cant not choose
2. How did we get here? A brief history of ecological restoration
3. Restoration is an active choice
4. Climate change: is the rapid pace and magnitude a bridge too far for ecological restoration?
5. Novel ecosystems: a new wrinkle for ecological restoration
6. Renewed restoration: building a middle path toward a restored Earth
7. Building the restored future: making the renewal happen

Updates from the first edition, published in 2012, include a diversification of perspectives and case studies, an in-depth assessment of the new restoration standards published by the Society for Ecological Restoration in 2019, and a revision of future projections for the field. Overall, this work is a meta-view of ecological restoration, throughout asking why we restore and highlighting the role of human choices in restoration. Students of restoration ecology and conservation biology, restoration practitioners, and those interested in human relationships with land would all be well served to engage with this work. Rebecca Tonietto in Restoration Ecology, Vol. 32, Issue 4