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Restoring Nature's Place: A Guide To Naturalizing Ontario Parks And Greenspace

By: Jean-Marc Daigle & Donna Havinga

In a time when planetary life support systems are seriously threatened, biodiversity is on a precipitous decline, and people are faced with growning economic disparity and social unrest, the community-based ecological restoration movement sweeping across Ontario, indeed across the entire world, is a profound message of hope.  Ecological restoration is born out of a vision of healthy, sustainable, and life-sustaining ecosystems and human communities.  Restoring Nature's Place: A Guide to Naturalizing Ontario Parks and Greenspace presents background information, practical strategies, and case studies for working towards this vision.  Drawn from the authors' research and experience in restoration ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology, facilitation, environmental education, and environmental thought, this guide is an essential resource for those who care deeply about, and want to participate in, the restoration of local and bioregional landscapes, and the creation of a more compassionate society.