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Renewal ecology: conservation for the Anthropocene
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Bowman, DMJS and Garnett, ST and Barlow, S and Bekessy, SA and Bellairs, SM and Bishop, MJ and Bradstock, RA and Jones, DN and Maxwell, SL and Pittock, J and Toral-Granda, MV and Watson, JEM and Wilson, T and Zander, KK and Hughes, L, Renewal ecology: conservation for the Anthropocene, Restoration Ecology, 25, (5) pp. 674-680. ISSN 1061-2971 (2017) [Letter or Note in Journal]
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Abstract
The global scale and rapidity of environmental change is challenging ecologists to reimagine their theoretical principles and management practices. Increasingly, historical ecological conditions are inadequate targets for restoration ecology, geographically circumscribed nature reserves are incapable of protecting all biodiversity, and the precautionary principle applied to management interventions no longer ensures avoidance of ecological harm. In addition, human responses to global environmental changes, such as migration, building of protective infrastructures, and land use change, are having their own negative environmental impacts. We use examples from wildlands, urban, and degraded environments, as well as marine and freshwater ecosystems, to show that human adaptation responses to rapid ecological change can be explicitly designed to benefit biodiversity. This approach, which we call "renewal ecology," is based on acceptance that environmental change will have transformative effects on coupled human and natural systems and recognizes the need to harmonize biodiversity with human infrastructure, for the benefit of both.
Item Details
Item Type: | Letter or Note in Journal |
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Keywords: | biodiversity, climate, environmental change, innovation, opportunity, social-ecological systems |
Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
Research Group: | Environmental management |
Research Field: | Conservation and biodiversity |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences |
UTAS Author: | Bowman, DMJS (Professor David Bowman) |
ID Code: | 127573 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 17 |
Deposited By: | Plant Science |
Deposited On: | 2018-08-03 |
Last Modified: | 2018-08-03 |
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