R SOC375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Restoration Ecology, Michael Pollan, Virtue Ethics

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC375
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

What"s wrong with ecological restoration: bighorn country proposal, aboriginal hunters fires help restore an australian desert. Preservation: dominant throughout 20th century, protecting nature involves setting side nature preserves and keeping them untrammeled by man (us congress, virtues: moderation, humility, fairness. Restoration: emergent, attempts to restore degraded nature; if it is to continue, nature must be actively restored, virtues: engagement, competency, taking responsibility. Conflicts within env philosophy is restoration ecology a useful paradigm for human/nature relations: michael pollan one of today"s most constructive, hopeful, and provocative env movements . Strengths of restoration hettinger (2012: restoration can help nature, wolf restoration in yellowstone not just good for us, but made the gray wolf species more robust and improved the health and integrity of the. Preservation not realistic, best to take healing approach. Already made big impacts, must deal with it. Large population, part of nature, inevitable impacts, hard to undo a lot of these impacts. No preservation site that is purely preserved.