Repairing ecosystems

摘要

A few years ago, in an effort to become more aware of the ecological problems facing humanity, I started a personal list of threatened and degraded ecosystems around the world. The list produced more despair than enlightenment, and I gave it up. Paddy Wood-worth's Our Once and Future Planet offers a belated but welcome counterweight to my abandoned list. He focuses on the relatively young field of restoration ecology, whose practitioners include scientists, philosophers, engineers, civil servants, and citizen volunteers undertaking nothing less than the regeneration and restoration of those same degraded ecosystems across the globe.