Authors:
Choi, Y.D.
Publication Date:
2007
Abstract/Summary:
This paper calls for a new paradigm of ecological restoration to the future. A future-oriented restoration should (1) establish the ecosystems that are able to sustain in the future, not the past, environment; (2) have multiple alternative goals and trajectories for unpredictable endpoints; (3) focus on rehabilitation of ecosystem functions rather than recomposition of species or cosmetics of landscape surface; and (4) acknowledge its identity as a ‘‘value-laden’’ applied science within economically and socially acceptable framework.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Restoration Ecology
Link:
http://friendsofboulderopenspace.org/documents/restoration_choi.pdf