{"product_id":"restoring-layered-landscapes-history-ecology-and-culture-9780190240325","title":"Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture","description":"\u003cem\u003eRestoring Layered Landscapes\u003c\/em\u003e brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature. For many decades, ecological restoration -\u003cbr\u003eparticularly in the United States - focused on returning degraded sites to conditions that prevailed prior to human influence. This model has been broadened in recent decades, and restoration now increasingly focuses on the recovery of ecological functions and processes rather than on returning a\u003cbr\u003esite to a specific historical state. Nevertheless, neither the theory nor the practice of restoration has fully come to terms with the challenges of restoring layered landscapes, where nature and culture shape one another in deep and ongoing relationships. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFormer military and industrial sites provide paradigmatic examples of layered landscapes. Many of these sites are not only characterized by natural ecosystems worth preserving and restoring, but also embody significant political, social, and cultural histories. This volume grapples with the\u003cbr\u003echallenges of restoring and interpreting such complex sites: What should we aim to restore in such places? How can restoration adequately take the legacies of human use into account? Should traces of the past be left on the landscape, and how can interpretive strategies be creatively employed to\u003cbr\u003emake visible the complex legacies of an open pit mine or chemical weapons manufacturing plant? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRestoration aims to create new value, but not always without loss. Restoration often disrupts existing ecosystems, infrastructure, and artifacts. The chapters in this volume consider what restoration can tell us more generally about the relationship between continuity and change, and how the past\u003cbr\u003ecan and should inform our thinking about the future. These insights, in turn, will help foster a more thoughtful approach to human-environment relations in an era of unprecedented anthropogenic global environmental change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marion Hourdequin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190240325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarion Hourdequin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Havlick is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40189590110323,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_bf7652ad-4f88-46eb-8c63-b2d59981f6f6.jpg?v=1655816829","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/restoring-layered-landscapes-history-ecology-and-culture-9780190240325","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}