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Title Large-scale ecosystem restoration [electronic resource] : five case studies from the United States / edited by Mary Doyle and Cynthia A. Drew.

Imprint Washington [D.C.] : Island Press, c2008.

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Description xiv, 325 p. : ill., map.
Series The science and practice of ecological restoration
Science and practice of ecological restoration.
Note "Society for Ecological Restoration International."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The challenges of restoring the Everglades ecosystem / Terrence "Rock" Salt, Stuart Langton, Mary Doyle -- Everglades ecology : the impacts of altered hydrology / Thomas L. Crisman -- Rivers of plans for the river of grass : the political economy of Everglades restoration / Stephen Polasky -- Negotiating for endangered and threatened species habitat in the Platte River Basin / David M. Freeman -- Platte River Basin ecology : a three-dimensional approach to adaptive management / Thomas L. Crisman -- Navigating the shoals : costs and benefits of Platte River ecosystem management / Stephen Polasky -- The California-Bay Delta : the challenges of collaboration / David Nawi, Alf W. Brandt -- The ecology of Bay-Delta restoration : an impossible dream? / Thomas L. Crisman -- Water fights : the economics of allocating scarce water and Bay-Delta restoration / Stephen Polasky -- The culture of collaboration in the Chesapeake Bay program / Mary Doyle, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm -- An ecological perspective on management of the Chesapeake Bay / Thomas L. Crisman -- Murky waters and murky policies : costs and benefits of restoring Chesapeake Bay / Stephen Polasky -- The Upper Mississippi River and the Army Corps of Engineers' new role : will Congress fund ecosystem restoration? / Cynthia A. Drew -- Upper Mississippi restoration ecology : putting theory into practice / Thomas L. Crisman -- Comparing apples and oranges? : costs and benefits of Upper Mississippi River system restoration / Stephen Polasky -- Conclusion: Assessing ecosystem restoration projects / Mary Doyle.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Restoration ecology -- United States -- Case studies.
Ecosystem management -- United States -- Case studies.
Watershed restoration -- United States -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Doyle, Mary, LL. B.
Drew, Cynthia A.
Society for Ecological Restoration International.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781597260251 (cloth : alk. paper)
1597260258 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781597260268 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1597260266 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781610910897 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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