The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World Marris Emma
The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World Marris Emma A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that…
Specifikacia The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World Marris Emma
The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World Marris Emma
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state.
Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management.In this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including rewilding,