ABSTRACT

Built on a strong foundation in restoration ecology, this unique handbook provides practitioners, academics, and managers with vital tools needed to plan for ecosystem conservation, to restore degraded ecosystems, to make cost-effective restoration decisions, and to understand important legal issues. Rehabilitation of Damaged Ecosystems, Second Edition boasts three completely new chapters and five major chapter revisions. Coastal wetlands restoration, watershed rehabilitation and management, mined land reclamation, revegetation of disturbed ecosystems, and river and stream restoration are only a few of the critical topics explored in this timely reference handbook.
This Second Edition provides valuable, reliable data as well as practical methods and techniques for the ongoing fight to protect natural resources and restore damaged ecosystems.

chapter 1|12 pages

Restoration Ecology

Protecting Our National and Global Life Support Systems
Edited ByCairns John

chapter 2|22 pages

Decision Analysis

An Integrated Approach to Ecosystem Exploitation and Rehabilitation Decisions

chapter 3|14 pages

Making Watershed Restoration Happen

What Does Economics Offer?

chapter 5|22 pages

Salt Marsh Restoration

Lessons from California

chapter 6|36 pages

Mitigation Banks

A Strategy for Sustainable Ecosystem Function

chapter 10|26 pages

Nuclear Winter

Is Rehabilitation Possible?

chapter 13|48 pages

Re-Creation of Ecosystems at Mount St. Helens

Contrasts in Artificial and Natural Approaches

chapter 16|12 pages

Restoration Ecology

A Synthetic Approach to Ecological Research

chapter 17|28 pages

Abandoned Mines in Illinois and North Dakota

Toward an Understanding of Revegetation Problems