Rambunctious garden : saving nature in a post-wild world
"For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues ... that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management. In this ... book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems ..."--Jacket
Nonfiction
210 pages ; 25 cm
9781608190324, 9781608194544, 1608190323, 160819454X
639161286
Weeding the jungle
The Yellowstone model
The forest primeval
Radical rewilding
Assisted migration
Learning to love exotic species
Novel ecosystems
Designer ecosystems
Conservation everywhere
A menu of new goals
"Some of the material in this book appeared previously, in a different form, in the journal Nature"--Title page verso