Restoration Design

A Reader on the Landscape Architecture of Novel Social-Ecological Systems
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-45628-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 776 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development

Restoration Design: A Reader on the Landscape Architecture of Novel Social Ecological Systems challenges conventional restoration ecology by presenting a holistic approach that transcends returning landscapes to imagined original states. It brings together three dozen essays establishing "restoration design" as an integrative discipline at the interface of nature and culture, creating novel social-ecological systems for both people and ecosystems. Drawing on landscape architecture, environmental philosophy, and sustainable development, the book critiques restoration ecology's limitations while offering regenerative solutions through international case studies. The book represents the first systematic compilation of conceptual reflections on restoration as a creative, forward-looking practice rather than backward-looking reconstruction.

- Uniquely presents theoretical and philosophical essays on restoration design as a distinct discipline, addressing critical gaps in restoration ecology literature.

- Combines landscape architecture, restoration ecology, environmental philosophy, and sustainable development to create novel social-ecological systems.

- Includes case studies and examples from post-industrial and devastated landscapes across the United States, Italy, Iraq, England, and Cambodia

Zielgruppe

Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

France, Robert L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

HEALING NATURES, REPAIRING RELATIONSHIPS. Ecological Restoration and the Uncomfortable, Beautiful Middle Ground. Place-Based Performance and Ecological Restoration. As Inside, So Outside: Restoration of Inner and Outer Landscapes. Nature’s Memory: Restoration and the Triumph of the Cognitive. RELATIONSHIPS. Restorative Relationships: From Artifacts to “Natural” Systems. Restoring and Renewing Whole Ways of Life. Embracing and Resisting the Restorative Impulse. DESIGN. Ecological Art: Visible, Visionary, Practical and Restorative. Art, Nature, Health and Aesthetics in the Restoration of the Post-Industrial Public Realm. Constructing Restoration Ecologies: Nature, Aesthetics, Sites and Systems. Understanding the Role of Environmental Designers in Environmental Restoration and Remediation. Landscapes and Mindscapes of Restoration Design. REGENERATION, RESTORATION, REDEVELOPMENT. Designing New Natures for People and Ecology: Metaphysics, Semantics, Logistics. Reparative Paradigms with People in Mind. Ecocultural Restorative Redevelopment as a Guiding Principle in Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes in Uncertain Times. Perspectives on the Social-Ecological, Regenerative Paradigm of Restoration Design. By Any Other Name: Narrowing the Scope of Restoration Ecology Through Distinguishing its Boundaries from the Related Social-
Ecological Disciplines of Restoration Design and Restoration Natural History. Passerelle: Bridging Concerns, Contentions, and Conflicts in Sociology of Restoring Serenity to Venice. For the Time Being: Designing a Palimpsest Landscape at Crissy Fields, San Francisco. Restoration, Ecological Citizenry, and Ziggurat Building in Iraq. Sociological Issues of Regenerative Landscape Design (and Lessons for Venice). Clark County Wetlands Park and the London Wetland Centre Integrative Themes and Lessons. Cambodia’s Institutional Frameworks for Ecocultural Restorative Redevelopment: Introduction to Optimistic Management Models Useful for Iraq. FURTHER PERSPECTIVES. Governance-Management Lessons for Social-Ecological Marine Restoration. Remembering Those Discarded: Concepts to Consider for Regenerating a Landfill as a National Memorial for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in the Wider Context of ‘Waste’ and Healing. Deindustrialization, Romance of the Ruinous, and Landscape Phenomenology in Restoration Design. Adventures in Landscape Algebra: Experience of a Single Day’s Walking Through the Terraformed Frankenlandscape of a Former Steelworks Reclaimed as a Public Park. Restoring the Social and Natural Capital of Agro-Ecosystems. ANCILLARY NOTIONS. Landscape Architecture—Restoration’s Problematic Panacea? On the Italian Debt Concerning the Nature of Nature, and Restoration’s Patron Saint. Gaian Integrity, Geodesign, and Global Restoration. Students’ Imagined Conversations Among Authors: A Novel Approach to Teaching Restoration Scholarship.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Robert France is a professor of landscape management at Dalhousie University and was formerly a professor at Harvard University from where the present source material originated. He has published over two hundred journal articles and has written or edited more than two dozen books. He is the editor for the CRC Press series Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development that consists of more than a dozen titles. His research focuses on conservation biology, waterscape design and ecology, and cultural landscapes. With more than twelve thousand citations, his Google Scholar category-specific citation rankings are #8 for ‘landscape’ in general, and #5 for ‘landscape architecture’ and #9 for ‘environmental planning’ in particular.