Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration

by Eric S. Higgs

Book Overview

Ecological restoration is the process of repairing human damage to ecosystems. It involves reintroducing missing plants and animals, rebuilding soils, eliminating hazardous substances, ripping up roads, and returning natural processes such as fire and flooding to places that thrive on their regular occurrence. Thousands of restoration projects take place in North America every year. In Nature by Design, Eric Higgs argues that profound philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262582260
• ISBN13: 9780262582261
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher