Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
programs, some of the leading work has been done by the Earth Partnership for
Schools Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum and the Educa-
tion Department of Environmental Concern (St. Michaels, Maryland). These two
programs have helped schools and other facilities throughout the United States by de-
veloping curricula, instructing teachers and administrators, and working with schools
to restore the schoolyards with prairies and wetlands. Other smaller programs, such as
the Summer Orientation About Rivers (Prairie Plains Resource Institute) and the
Mighty Acorns (Chicago Wilderness), provide a more regional approach to educating
youngsters about environmental stewardship and ecological restoration. The theoret-
ical support for all of these programs can be found in the works of David Orr (1992),
Peter Kahn Jr. and Stephen Kellert (2002), Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble
(1994), and Richard Louv (2005).
College-level programs and course work in ecological restoration can be found on
an international scale, but especially in the United States, Canada, England, and Aus-
tralia. Lavendel (1999) provided an overview of some of the college-level ecological
restoration programs available in the United States at that time. The Global Restora-
tion Network provides a more current listing (http://www.globalrestorationnetwork
.org/education/).
Educational opportunities for the general public range from so-called tailgate ses-
sions during volunteer work parties, to public lectures and other events, to signage and
other interpretive devices in areas where restoration activities are taking place. While
no one has written a topic or even an overview article about this type of work within a
restoration context, articles about these sorts of activities have and do appear from
time to time in
Ecological Restoration
. For example, the March 2004 issue included
an article by Colette Palamar about how to conduct a fire festival to introduce the gen-
eral public to the safe use of prescribed burns (Palamar 2004).
Other Humanities-Related Areas
Other areas in the humanities that are of interest to ecological restorationists include
history (reference conditions, authenticity), philosophy (ethics), and psychology (un-
derstanding human behavior). While we have made a conscious choice not to in-
clude discussions of all these areas in this topic, we fully recognize their importance
and include here a brief summary of a few important publications in each of these
areas.
In the area of history and historical ecology, look into the publications by David R.
Foster and his colleagues (2000, 2004), Eric Higgs (2003), Dave Egan and Evelyn A.
Howell (2001), Peter S. White and Joan L. Walker (1997), William Cronon (1983,
1991, 1996), Carole Crumley and William H. Marquardt (1987), and Carole Crum-
ley (1994). There have been several topics about philosophical issues related to resto-
ration. These include works by Bill Jordan (2003), William Throop (2000), Andrew
Light (2005), Andrew Light and R. Holmes III (2002), and Eric Katz (1996). Addi-
tionally, it would be a huge oversight not to mention
Environmental Ethics
, which has
been edited by Eugene Hargrove from 1979 to the present (http://www.cep.unt.edu
