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    Environmental Restoration: Science And Strategies For Restoring The Earth

    By John Berger

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    Environmental Restoration is the product of a ground-breaking conference on ecological restoration, held in January 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers an overview from the nation's leading experts of the mcurrtechniques of restoration, including examples of the complex and subtle biological interactions we must understand to ensure success.Chapters cover restoration of agricultural lands, barrens, coastal ecosystems, prairies, and range lands. Additional sections address temperate forests and watersheds, mined lands, soil bioengineering, urban issues including waste treatmand solid, toxic, and radioactive waste management. The book also covers restoration of aquatic systems, includes chapters on strategic planning and land acquisition, and provides examples of successful projects.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateJun 22, 2012
    ISBN9781597268783
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    Environmental Restoration: Science And Strategies For Restoring The Earth
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    John Berger

    John Berger was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing (1972), the Booker prize-winning novel G (1972), Here is where we meet (2005), From A to X (2008), Cataract (with Selcuk Demirel) (2012) and most recently, Confabulations (2016).

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