Rehabilitating damaged ecosystems

Built on a strong foundation in restoration ecology, this unique handbook provides practitioners, academics, and managers with vital tools needed to plan for ecosystem conservation, to restore degraded ecosystems, to make cost-effective restoration decisions, and to understand important legal issues. Rehabilitation of Damaged Ecosystems, Second Edition boasts three completely new chapters and five major chapter revisions. Coastal wetlands restoration, watershed rehabilitation and management, mined land reclamation, revegetation of disturbed ecosystems, and river and stream restoration are only a few of the critical topics explored in this timely reference handbook. This Second Edition provides valuable, reliable data as well as practical methods and techniques for the ongoing fight to protect natural resources and restore damaged ecosystems.

1 Restoration ecology: protecting our national and global life support systems / John Cairns, Jr -- 2 Decision analysis: an integrated approach to ecosystem exploitation and rehabilitation decisions / Lynn A. Maguire -- 3 Making watershed restoration happen: what does economics offer? / Leonard A. Shabman -- 4 Principles and guidelines for restoration of river/floodplain ecosystems -- Kissimmee River, Florida / Louis A. Toth -- 5 Salt marsh restoration: lessons from California / Joy B. Zedler -- 6 Mitigation banks: a strategy for sustainable ecosystem function / Daniel E. Willard and John Klarquist -- 7 Restoration and management of ecosystems for nature conservation in Germany / Diedrich Bruns and Sabine Gilcher -- 8 Alternative endpoints for reclamation / Anthony D. Bradshaw -- 9 Improving coal surface mine reclamation in the Central Appalachian Region / W. Lee Daniels and Carl E. Zipper -- 10 Nuclear winter: is rehabilitation possible? / Anne H. Ehrlich -- 11 River and stream restoration / James A. Gore, Franklin L. Bryant, and Dina J. Crawford -- 12 Political and social factors in the Patuxent River Cleanup Agreement / Peter N. Klose, Elizabeth L. Rich, and Peter Schneider -- …