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Large-scale ecosystem restoration : five case studies from the United States / edited by Mary Doyle and Cynthia A. Drew.
- Title
- Large-scale ecosystem restoration : five case studies from the United States / edited by Mary Doyle and Cynthia A. Drew.
- Publication
- Washington : Island Press, c2008.
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- Description
- xiv, 325 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Presents case studies of five of the most noteworthy large-scale restoration projects in the United States: Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, the California Bay-Delta, the Platte River basin, and the Upper Mississippi River system.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781597260251 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1597260258 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781597260268 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1597260266 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007046018
- OCLC
- 181730469
- SCSB-9901087
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library