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Renewal ecology: conservation for the Anthropocene
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-22, 00:55 authored by David BowmanDavid Bowman, Garnett, ST, Barlow, S, Bekessy, SA, Bellairs, SM, Bishop, MJ, Bradstock, RA, Jones, DN, Maxwell, SL, Pittock, J, Toral-Granda, MV, Watson, JEM, Wilson, T, Zander, KK, Hughes, LThe 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.
History
Publication title
Restoration EcologyVolume
25Issue
5Pagination
674-680ISSN
1061-2971Department/School
School of Natural SciencesPublisher
Blackwell Publishing IncPlace of publication
350 Main St, Malden, USA, Ma, 02148Repository Status
- Restricted