Ecological Restoration: Principles, Values, and Structure of an Emerging Profession

Abstract

The field of ecological restoration is a rapidly growing discipline that encompasses a wide range of activities and brings together practitioners and theoreticians from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. This textbook is part of the Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Book Series which is intended to serve a broad audience of people who are active in the field of ecological restoration or have specialized interests in it. In the authors? own words, this book aims to move beyond the past twelve volumes in the series and create a unified vision of ecological restoration as a field of study, one that clearly states the discipline?s precepts and emphasizes issues of importance to those involved at all levels. In doing this, the authors of book fundamentally aim to embrace a wider, holistic definition that takes into account both environmental and social components.