<i>Restoration Ecology</i> at 25 years: the editors reflect on how we got here

Murphy, Stephen D.; Allen, Edith B.; Hobbs, Richard J.

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“…The realm of restoration is divided into restoration ecology as the science of ecology and ecological restoration as the overall practices, including esthetic and economic factors, and other social dimensions (Eden & Tunstall 2006; Keulartz 2007). Echoing Murphy et al (2018), the origins of these terms are hard to track accurately. The term restoration was reported in the early 1940s in documents relating to Dekalb County, Illinois, and notes from George Ward and Paul Shephard at Knox College in 1954 (Murphy et al 2018).…”

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“…Echoing Murphy et al (2018), the origins of these terms are hard to track accurately. The term restoration was reported in the early 1940s in documents relating to Dekalb County, Illinois, and notes from George Ward and Paul Shephard at Knox College in 1954 (Murphy et al 2018). Nonetheless, only at the end of the 1970s, restoration ecology started to emerge as a formal research field in Brazil (Fig.…”

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Historical trajectory of restoration practice and science across the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Rother,

Romanelli,

Rodrigues

2023

Restoration Ecology

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Restoration is fundamentally a hopeful intervention that can meaningfully improve the condition of human‐degraded and destroyed ecosystems. Both restoration science and practice have gained special attention given the recently declared UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. Here, we present an overview of the historical development of forest restoration on the Brazilian Atlantic Forest with an emphasis in methodological and technical assumptions. We gathered information from primary and secondary studies to show how forest restoration concepts and strategies evolved over the years. Given the importance of reviews for informing management and policy as well as research, our study provides a summarized information on forest restoration approaches or practices that can help practitioners and non‐initiated to understand how this field evolved in Brazil and how lessons learned can be useful for forest restoration in other countries.

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Historical trajectory of restoration practice and science across the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Rother,

Romanelli,

Rodrigues

2023

Restoration Ecology

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“…Unlike restoration ecology, which formalised as a subdiscipline of ecology with associated professional practices in 1993 (Murphy et al, 2018), rewilding is, in my view, better thought of as a label, like punk or hippy, for a cultural space that aspires to ‘shake up the present to shape different futures’. Rewilding can be understood as an emerging conservation movement and a re‐expression of the social movement heritage of conservation that shaped 20th century institutions of nature conservation and biodiversity (see e.g.…”

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“…It has subsequently been applied to a collection of pioneer recovery initiatives internationally and is inspiring the formation of national and local rewilding groups across Europe (see https:// rewil dinge urope.com/europ ean-rewil ding-netwo rk/). Unlike restoration ecology, which formalised as a subdiscipline of ecology with associated professional practices in 1993 (Murphy et al, 2018), rewilding is, in my view, better thought of as a label, like punk or hippy, for a cultural space that aspires to 'shake up the present to shape different futures'. Rewilding can be understood as an emerging conservation movement and a re-expression of the social movement heritage of conservation that shaped 20th century institutions of nature conservation and biodiversity (see e.g.…”

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To capitalise on the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, we need institutional redesign to empower advances in restoration ecology and rewilding

Jepson¹

2022

People and Nature

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1. The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration signifies the ambition to move beyond a defensive focus on biodiversity protection towards a proactive agenda of restoring ecosystems to generate value for people and nature.2. The international nature regime, based on the linked concepts of biodiversity and sustainable development, has achieved much. However, its institutions are built on a 'compositional' approach to ecology that 'locks in' arbitrary ecological baselines and constrains an ambitious approach to ecosystem restoration.3. Rewilding and the wider field of restoration ecology foreground the dynamic nature of ecosystems, the need to consider system function and the importance of trophic networks for ecosystem recovery. Rewilding science extends these new directions with a focus on restoring the functional effects of large megafauna and random biotic and abiotic disturbance. 4. I argue that historic processes of institutional reductionism, which enabled the construction of a strong protective biodiversity regime, have created institutions that lack the flexibility and innovation culture needed to create new policy and practice to support the recovery of ecosystem integrity and open-ended restoration processes such as rewilding. 5. Given this, we need to initiate ordered and effective processes of institutional redesign. To this end, I have proposed five actions for discussion, namely: (a) adopt and embed a positive, hopeful and empowering narrative of nature recovery; (b) create 'nature recovery innovation zones', where existing policy and regulations are relaxed and new approaches are developed and tested; (c) develop functional classifications of nature to support the design of 'new generation' policy instruments; (d) create markets for ecosystem recovery based on units of ecosystem change to support the emergence of a nature recovery land economy; and (e) introduce programs of professional training in the science, principles and opportunities of ecosystem recovery at all levels in government and non-government conservation agencies. | 1405 People and Nature JEPSON How to cite this article: Jepson, P. R. (2022). To capitalise on the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, we need institutional redesign to empower advances in restoration ecology and rewilding.

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Restoration Ecology at 25 years: the editors reflect on how we got here

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Historical trajectory of restoration practice and science across the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Historical trajectory of restoration practice and science across the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

To capitalise on the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, we need institutional redesign to empower advances in restoration ecology and rewilding

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