ABSTRACT
A B STRA CT The Everglades system is configured by processes operating across a wide range of scales in space and time. Major land use conversions associated with develop ment have occurred during the past century, transforming a once vast wetland landscape scarcely 5000 years old. The development of the system has occurred in a syndrome of crises and responses that solved the momentary crisis but exaggerated the subsequent crisis. The natural controls of the system have been replaced by human ones, resulting in a deterioration of the valued natural features. The natural system was hierarchically structured with discontinuous attributes. Distinct processes define objects and structures at different hierarchical levels, which provide choices and opportunities for organisms across a wide range of space and time scales. The results of a series of AEAM workshops indicate that key features of this resilient landscape can be restored. Restoration goals can be defined, as can designs to achieve those goals. The guidelines for restoration include (1) tinkering does not work, (2) single quick-fix structural solutions do not work, (3) composite policies do not work, and (4) there are a number of composite policies.
