Environmental Art and Restoration

Lambert, Amy M.; Khosla, Maya R.

doi:10.3368/er.18.2.109

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“…Willow stems from a local energy forest can be used for building numerous living structures, serving as play elements and enhancing school and park environments; willows are also used for interdisciplinary research in creative environmental endeavors combining art, science and technology (Danks, 2002;Hunter, 1992). The integration of willow art into restoration projects -'ecological art'-has received extensive public support and awareness and makes restoration projects entertaining for children (Lambert and Khosla, 2000;Lefkowitz, 2002).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Willows Beyond Wetlands: Uses of Salix L. Species for Environmental Projects

Kuzovkina

Quigley

2005

Water Air Soil Pollut

230

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Species of Salix characterized by particular physiological adaptations and ecological resilience are predisposed to use in conservation and environmental projects in many climatic zones and adverse microsite conditions. The economic importance of Salix is currently increasing and emerging in a wide array of practical applications to restore damaged ecosystems. Here we describe the ecology, physiological characteristics and agricultural requirements of Salix and present an integrated picture based on literature review, of current uses for willows well beyond wetland and riparian situations. These uses include ecosystem restoration, phytoremediation (phytoextraction, phytodegradation, rhizofiltration and phytostabilization), bioengineering (water and wind erosion, and protective structures), and biomass production for both fuel and fiber.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Willows Beyond Wetlands: Uses of Salix L. Species for Environmental Projects

Kuzovkina

Quigley

2005

Water Air Soil Pollut

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“…Further to this, it has been argued that various forms of environmental art can act as a conduit between restoration efforts and the public, giving ‘…form and voice to restored landscapes, thereby deepening our awareness and appreciation of natural processes’ (Lambert & Khosla, 2000, p. 110). Meanwhile, Sayre (2010) provides an example that raises some challenges regarding the place of the arts within ecological restoration.…”

Section: Aesthetic Value and Ecological Restorationmentioning

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Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

Brady

Prior

2020

People and Nature

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Environmental aesthetics has emerged in the last 50 years from the philosophical fields of aesthetics and environmental philosophy. The questions and issues which shape this subfield have been drawn principally from the Western philosophical tradition. Other disciplinary perspectives have also shaped environmental aesthetics, including landscape architecture, human geography, restoration ecology and empirical studies on landscape preferences in developmental and environmental psychology. This review and synthesis mainly addresses the theoretical approaches and concepts that provide a framework to the key debates in the field, but also considers, to some extent, how empirical approaches have shaped recent developments, and how conceptual issues arise with respect to empirical cases. We note that our expertize and, thus, the expertize of this review, is primarily confined to UK, European and North American scholarship. Abstract 1. The main aim of the article is to provide up-to-date knowledge of environmental aesthetics for an interdisciplinary audience, and to signal the importance of research in this area for studying people-nature relationships. 2. Environmental aesthetics has emerged in the last 50 years from the philosophical fields of aesthetics and environmental philosophy. Other disciplinary perspectives have also shaped environmental aesthetics, including landscape architecture, human geography, restoration ecology and empirical studies on landscape preferences in developmental and environmental psychology.3. This review and synthesis mainly addresses the theoretical approaches and concepts that provide a framework to the key debates in the field, but also considers how empirical approaches have shaped recent developments, and how conceptual issues arise with respect to empirical cases. 4. We outline the background and context of environmental aesthetics, its key concepts, and provide a critical review of contemporary theories in the field. We then consider how aesthetics features in issues pertaining to the conservation, preservation, and restoration of nature.5. Finally, we identify some new directions for environmental aesthetics scholarship that can productively contribute to ongoing debates regarding various relationships between people and nature.

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“…incorporated within restoration projects themselves as positively contributing to restoration's capacity for meaning making and community building. See Jordan (2003), Holland (1994), Lambert (2000), and Palamar (2004). 9) "Modern Yoga," states de Michelis, is "a technical term to refer to certain types of yoga that evolved mainly through the interaction of Western individuals interested in Indian religions and a number of more or less Westernized Indians over the last 150 years."…”

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Ecological Restoration as Public Spiritual Practice

Wieren

2008

Worldviews

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Th e practice of ecological restoration is the attempt to repair ecosystems that have been damaged or degraded, most often by past human activities. Restoration includes everything from removing dams to planting native trees, grasses and wildfl owers to bio-reactivating soil to controlling invasive plants to recontouring land. Beyond this, ecological restoration is the attempt to restore humans' relationship with nature. In the actual activities of restoring land, humans are in important ways restored to land. Th is paper argues that one of the ways in which restoration practice reconnects humans to nature is in a spiritual-moral sense. In addition to performing ecological work, restoration performs sacred work and serves as a form of public witness; and it can engender spiritual-moral experiences within participants. For these reasons, we can view restoration not only as a promising contemporary environmental practice, but also as a burgeoning public spiritual practice.

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Environmental Art and Restoration

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Willows Beyond Wetlands: Uses of Salix L. Species for Environmental Projects

Willows Beyond Wetlands: Uses of Salix L. Species for Environmental Projects

Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

Ecological Restoration as Public Spiritual Practice

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