Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction
Foreword
Preface
Scope and Purpose
About the Editor
Part II. Theoretical Underpinnings
Chapter 1. Ecological Restoration: Global Challenges, Social Aspects and Environmental Benefits: An Overview
(Victor R. Squires, International Dryland Management Consultant, Adelaide, Australia)
Chapter 2. Sustaining Ecological Restoration through Social Transformation
(Ernita van Wyk, Bimo Nkhata, Charles Breen, Wayne Freimund, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg South Africa)
Part III. Restoration of Grossly Disturbed Landscapes
Chapter 3. Restoration, Reclamation, Remediation and Rehabilitation of Mining Sites: Which Path do we take through the Regulatory Maze?
(Amy Yeldell and Victor R. Squires, Independent Consultant, Rifle, Colorado, USA, and others)
Chapter 4. What Part of Mining are Ecosystems? Defining Success for the ‘Restoration’ of Highly Disturbed Landscapes
(D. Doley, P. Audet, Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, University of Queensland, Australia, and others)
Chapter 5. Role of Microbes and Plants in Phytoremediation: Potential of Genetic Engineering
(Umesh B Jagtap, Vishwas A Bapat, Gaëlle Saladin, Ewa Chudziñska, Magdalena Krzes³owska, Ewa M. Pawlaczyk, Tayyaba Komal, Alvina G. Kazi, Irena Sherameti and Zeshan Ali, Department of Biotechnology, Shivaji University Vidyanagar, Kolhapur, India, and others)
Chapter 6. Heavy Metals in Contaminated Areas: Role of Chemicals to Enhance Phytoextraction
(Muhammad Abdullah, Tayyaba Komal, Alvina G. Kazi, A. Rodríguez-Vila, R. Forján, E.F. Covelo, Muhammad Shahbaz, Irena Sherameti and Zeshan Ali, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and others)
Part IV. Degraded Terrestrial Ecosystems
Chapter 7. Restoration of Wildlands including Wilderness, Conservation Reserves and Rangelands
(Victor R. Squires, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China)
Chapter 8. Ecological Restoration on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Problems, Strategies and Prospects
(Zhanhuan Shang, Quanming Dong, Allan Degen, Ruijun Long, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, and others)
Chapter 9. Potential and Constraints on Dryland Restoration: Case Studies from Iran
(Mohammad Jankju, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran)
Part V. Aquatic Systems (Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes, Rivers, Marine)
Chapter 10. Rehabilitation of Degraded Wetlands: UK Experience
(Charlie Stratford, and Mike Acreman, Wetland Center, UK)
Chapter 11. Restoration of Saltmarshes and Seagrass Ecosystems: South Australian Case Studies
(Doug Fotheringham, Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources, Adelaide, Australia)
Chapter 12. Ecosystem Restoration in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: The Challenge for the Basin Plan
(Barry Hart, Bill Johnson, Jo Kneebone and Michael Wilson, Water Science Pty Ltd, Echuca, Australia, and others)
Part VI. Unifying Perspectives
Chapter 13. Restorative Futures for Social-Ecological Systems in Changing Times
(David J. Brunckhorst, and E. Jamie Trammell, UNESCO Center for Bioregional Resource Management, Armidale, Australia, and others)
Chapter 14. Concluding Thoughts on Ecological Restoration: Global Challenges, Social Aspects and Environmental Benefits
(Victor R. Squires, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China)
Author and Subject Index
Additional Information
Audience: Restoration Ecologists, mine site environmental officers, upper classmen, graduate students, ;policy makers in Natural Resource management
Reviews
Click here, to read the review by – James Blignaut, Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Click here to read the book review by – Elahe Karami, M.Sc Student, Department of Rangeland Management, Young Researchers Club, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd
