Changing nature: Novel ecosystems, intervention, and knowing when to step back

Sustainability Science: The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment

Volumn 9781461431886, Issue , 2012, Pages 383-398

  Higgs, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological intervention; Ecological restoration; Historical fidelity; Novel and hybrid ecosystems; Wild design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896842323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3188-6_18     Document Type: Chapter

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