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... > social science subjects > sociology > environmental, urban and regional sociology > environmental sociology > conservation and ecology > restoration ecology

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restoration ecology  

Definition

  • The repair and restoration of ecological communities has been undertaken as a conscious endeavor at least since the 1890s, and has grown to become a recognized sub-discipline within academic ecology, as well as a sprawling professional and amateur practice. Although environmental reclamation and rehabilitation attempts have been attempted throughout human history, resembling acts of “restoration ecology” avant la lettre, as a disciplinary practice it thus only became possible with the reification of “the ecosystem” as an object of study in the ecology of Ernst Haeckel and Frederick Clements. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Restoration Ecology]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MQXV96WS-R

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