{"product_id":"the-rambunctious-garden-saving-nature-in-a-post-wild-world-9781608194544","title":"The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the rambunctious garden, a hybrid of wild nature and human management. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRambunctious Garden\u003c\/i\u003e is short on gloom and long on interesting theories and fascinating narratives, all of which bring home the idea that we must give up our romantic notions of pristine wilderness and replace them with the concept of a global, half-wild rambunctious garden planet, tended by us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781608194544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.54w x 0.61d","brand":"Emma Marris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661784150172,"sku":"9781608194544","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5a1a3bcf-ecf5-4a8f-870a-89fc5d6ee814.jpg?v=1603900262","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-rambunctious-garden-saving-nature-in-a-post-wild-world-9781608194544","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}