<i>Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration</i>

Brewitt, Peter

doi:10.3368/er.40.4.277

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“…Novel problems do not mandate novel solutions : Bionovelty emphasizes the widely recognized inadequacy of essentialist norms of restoration (Martin 2022) be it grappling with long standing problems like invasive species or rapidly emerging challenges such as those associated with climate change. In so doing, bionovelty intensifies the imperative to develop and implement carefully revised guidelines for restoration interventions that nonetheless remain true to existing, well‐articulated values that have driven the science and practice of ecosystem restoration.…”

Section: Significance For Ecosystem Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bionovelty and ecological restoration

Volpe,

Higgs,

Jeschke

et al. 2024

Restoration Ecology

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Anthropogenic activity has irreparably altered the ecological fabric of Earth. The emergence of ecological novelty from diverse drivers of change is an increasingly challenging dimension of ecosystem restoration. At the same time, the restorationist's tool kit continues to grow, including a variety of powerful and increasingly prevalent technologies. Thus, ecosystem restoration finds itself at the center of intersecting challenges. How should we respond to increasingly common emergence of environmental system states with little or no historical precedent, whilst considering the appropriate deployment of potentially consequential and largely untested interventions that may give rise to organisms, system states, and/or processes that are likewise without historical precedent? We use the term bionovelty to encapsulate these intersecting themes and examine the implications of bionovelty for ecological restoration.

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Section: Significance For Ecosystem Restorationmentioning

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Bionovelty and ecological restoration

Volpe,

Higgs,

Jeschke

et al. 2024

Restoration Ecology

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“…As for the future, we can speculate about what changes may be on the horizon. Practice in landscape management is undergoing a process of contestation, perhaps as it always has (Martin 2022). What is considered appropriate practice is being re-negotiated.…”

Section: Landscapes In the Futurementioning

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The evolving circle of landscape design

McQuillan,

Ryba

2023

Restoration Ecology

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In landscape design and ecological restoration, humans shape the landscape. In doing so, practitioners express values that are not always stated explicitly. Here, we discuss how the values expressed by landscape designers and ecological scientists have constantly evolved through history and remain contested and re‐negotiated today—a phenomenon we term the “evolving circle of landscape design.” Values inherent in present‐day landscape design and restoration (e.g. biodiversity, climate resilience) may be one transient point among many (e.g. power relations of societies in the past, digital landscapes of societies in the future) on this evolving circle. We believe that a critical, reflective understanding of the values expressed during landscape design and restoration will enable practitioners to choose more freely which values are expressed in landscapes, and that doing so will empower our disciplines to help society meet its present and future challenges.

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“…When there is growing clamour for solutions such as geoengineering, oriented towards capital-intensive, technological interventions conceived on a planetary scale, restoration remains, as a field practice, one largely for the welly-clad, waistdeep in streams, ankle-deep in peatland. And yet, this folksy culture, already increasingly professionalized since the 1990s as a vehicle for enabling development through damage offsetting (Martin, 2022), is set to change over the next decade as restoration is scaled-up through UN advocacy.…”

Section: The Rise Of Restorationmentioning

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Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda

Usher

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The UN’s Decade of Ecosystem Restoration commenced in June 2021, with the expectation that ecological restoration will be vastly scaled-up internationally. Millions of hectares of the earth’s surface is projected to be restored, from forests and peatland to rivers, reefs and grasslands. This will transform restoration from a predominantly localized, community-driven field to a highly capitalized, professional activity. As the renowned biologist E. O. Wilson proposed, the twenty-first century certainly does look likely to be characterized by restoration. And yet, thus far, the still emerging field of ecological restoration has been dominated by the natural sciences, in both theory and practice, neglecting broader questions of how to live in and with restored landscapes. This paper contends that if restoration is to be significantly expanded over the next decade, the social sciences and humanities must be involved to ensure its purpose is given adequate scrutiny, by engaging wider publics of interest in scheme planning, design and implementation. This is crucial given the dominance of natural capital accounting in restoration, which privileges economic reasoning over alternative, more radical forms. Pragmatism, which has a substantive philosophical interest in the relationship between humans and their environment, can offer a distinctive orientation to inquiry conducive to collaboration between the natural and social disciplines. Focusing on waterway restoration in the United Kingdom, and drawing on social and natural science literature, this paper outlines a pragmatist research agenda that recognizes multiplicity in nature, advocates experimentation in human-environment relations, and foregrounds community in democratic renewal. The paper considers not only ways that pragmatism can inform restoration but how restoration can advance a pragmatist agenda for invigorating public life. This encourages scholars to think with not only against restoration, attending to composition as well as critique, as part of a political urban ecology.

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Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration

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Bionovelty and ecological restoration

Bionovelty and ecological restoration

The evolving circle of landscape design

Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda

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