{"product_id":"the-sunflower-forest-william-r-jordan-9780520272705","title":"The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature","description":"Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most promising approaches to conservation. In this book, William R. Jordan III, who coined the term \"restoration ecology,\" and who is widely respected as an intellectual leader in the field, outlines a vision for a restoration-based environmentalism that has emerged from his work over twenty-five years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a provocative range of thinkers, from anthropologists Victor Turner, Roy Rappaport, and Mary Douglas to literary critics Frederick Turner, Leo Marx, and R.W.B. Lewis, Jordan explores the promise of restoration, both as a way of reversing environmental damage and as a context for negotiating our relationship with nature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring restoration not only as a technology but also as an experience and a performing art, Jordan claims that it is the indispensable key to conservation. At the same time, he argues, restoration is valuable because it provides a context for confronting the most troubling aspects of our relationship with nature. For this reason, it offers a way past the essentially sentimental idea of nature that environmental thinkers have taken for granted since the time of Emerson and Muir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William R. Jordan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520272706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520272705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.70d","brand":"William R. Jordan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919950807295,"sku":"9780520272705","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ff963af0-0753-45cf-8121-68b65514d474.jpg?v=1680812811","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sunflower-forest-william-r-jordan-9780520272705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}