Gardeners of Eden : rediscovering our importance to nature / by Dan Dagget ; with photography by Tom Bean.

Author
Dagget, Dan, 1944- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Reno, Nevada, USA : University of Nevada Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
145 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

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    The author believes that humanity can have a positive effect on the land. He demonstrates case after case of positive human engagement in the environment and of managed ecosystems and restored areas that are richer, more diverse, and healthier than unmanaged ones. Much of pre-Columbian America, he contends, was not a pristine wilderness but an ancient garden managed over millennia by native peoples who shaped the plant and animal communities around them to the mutual benefit of all. He recommends a new kind of environmentalism based on management, science, evolution, and holism, and served by humans who enrich the environment even as they benefit from it. His new environmentalism offers hopeful solutions to the current ecological crisis and a new purpose for our human energies and ideals. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the earth and anyone seeking a viable way for our burgeoning human population to continue to live upon it.
    Contents
    • You can't have your cake unless you eat it, too
    • Pink panthers and lost tribes
    • Evidence of gardeners in Eden
    • Echoes of Eden-Beyond symbiosis to synergy
    • Droughtbusters
    • Lub-dub
    • Learning on the fringe
    • Return of the natives
    • Eden in flames
    • The economics of Eden
    • Building a new economy for Eden
    • Becoming native again-toward a new environmentalism.
    ISBN
    • 9781943859351 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1943859353 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016052023
    OCLC
    970640923
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