Stretch goals and backcasting: Approaches for overcoming barriers to large-scale ecological restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 487-492

  Manning, Adrian D ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Fischer, Joern ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Backcasting; Ecological restoration; Guiding image; Large scale; Milestones; Restoration ecology; Scenario planning; Shifting baselines; Stretch goals

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751069066     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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