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Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century
Forty years ago, ecological restoration was conceptualized through a natural science lens. Today, ecological restoration has evolved into a social and scientific concept. The duality of ecological restoration is acknowledged in guidance documents on the subject but is not apparent in its definition....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5792077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29400359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.12554 |
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description | Forty years ago, ecological restoration was conceptualized through a natural science lens. Today, ecological restoration has evolved into a social and scientific concept. The duality of ecological restoration is acknowledged in guidance documents on the subject but is not apparent in its definition. Current definitions reflect our views about what ecological restoration does but not why we do it. This viewpoint does not give appropriate credit to contributions from social sciences, nor does it provide compelling goals for people with different motivating rationales to engage in or support restoration. In this study, I give a concise history of the conceptualization and definition of ecological restoration, and I propose an alternative definition and corresponding viewpoint on restoration goal‐setting to meet twenty‐first century scientific and public inquiry. |
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spelling | pubmed-57920772018-05-10 Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century Martin, David M. Restor Ecol Opinion Articles Forty years ago, ecological restoration was conceptualized through a natural science lens. Today, ecological restoration has evolved into a social and scientific concept. The duality of ecological restoration is acknowledged in guidance documents on the subject but is not apparent in its definition. Current definitions reflect our views about what ecological restoration does but not why we do it. This viewpoint does not give appropriate credit to contributions from social sciences, nor does it provide compelling goals for people with different motivating rationales to engage in or support restoration. In this study, I give a concise history of the conceptualization and definition of ecological restoration, and I propose an alternative definition and corresponding viewpoint on restoration goal‐setting to meet twenty‐first century scientific and public inquiry. Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 2017-06-29 2017-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5792077/ /pubmed/29400359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.12554 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Restoration Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Ecological Restoration. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Opinion Articles Martin, David M. Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century |
title | Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century |
title_full | Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century |
title_fullStr | Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century |
title_full_unstemmed | Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century |
title_short | Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century |
title_sort | ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century |
topic | Opinion Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5792077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29400359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.12554 |
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