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Helping nature heal : an introduction to environmental restoration / edited by Richard Nilsen ; foreword by Barry Lopez

Published
Berkeley, Ca : Ten Speed Press, [1991]
Copyright Date
©1991
Physical Description
vi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Additional Creators
Nilsen, Richard

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Contents
THEORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION: Life work / Jim Dodge -- Shaping the land, transforming the human spirit / William R. Jordan -- Pitfalls on the way to lasting restoration / Seth Zuckerman -- Word and flesh / Wendell Berry -- Healing the dream of apocalypse / Michael Ortiz Hill -- Natural restoration / Susan E. Davis -- ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION IN THE USA: Just a few oddball species / Steve Packard -- Early American treeplanting / Richard Sassaman -- Global warming/global warning: plant the right tree / Marylee Guinon -- To learn the things we need to know / Freeman House -- Watershed rehabilitation at Redwood National Park / Karen Griffin -- Turning back the clock in The Florida Everglades / Randy Williams -- Restoring cities from the bottom up / Mike Helm and George Tukel -- Urban designs that work / David Sucher -- : ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AROUND THE WORLD: Bermuda: the restoration of an island ecology / David Wingate -- India: revisiting auroville / Alan Lithman -- Australia turns an environmental corner / Richard Nilsen -- Soviet Union: no longer flows the neva / Peter Riggs -- Brazil: letting the Amazon pay its own way / Jon Christensen -- Kenya: miracle in a lifeless pit / Norman Myers -- Japan: come back salmon / Tom Murdoch -- PRACTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION: How to heal the land / Jack Monschke -- Teaching restoration to kids / Don Waxman -- A survey of publications covering restoration / Dave Egan -- Turning industrial polluters into good neighbors / Sanford J. Lewis -- Finding and using toxics information / Philip Wexler -- What's underfoot: computer tools for restoration / Hank Roberts -- A crime lab for animals / Judith Goldsmith.
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ISBN
0898154251
Note
"A Whole Earth Catalog/Ten Speed Press publication."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 147) and index.
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