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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Buchkapitel
DOI 10.1016/S1479-3520(06)10003-3
Titel (primär) Community by experiment: recursive practice in landscape design and ecological restoration
Titel (sekundär) Community and ecology - dynamics of place, sustainability, and politics
Autor Gross, M.
Herausgeber McCright, A.M.; Clark, T.N.
Quelle Research in Urban Policy
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
Department SUSOZ
Band/Volume 10
Seite von 43
Seite bis 62
Sprache englisch
Abstract This chapter uses the concept of real-world experiments to describe ecological activity that occurs in the wider human community. The case discussed is an ecological restoration project at Montrose Point, a peninsula in Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago. In the restoration of Montrose Point, the scientific importance of ecological science is not juxtaposed with the seemingly irrational ideas of the human community, but the human community becomes a part of scientific work. Like experiments in the laboratory, real-world experiments often bring surprises. However, if ecological restoration is recognized to be inherently uncertain, surprises become opportunities to learn rather than failures. The chapter concludes with a discussion how a real-world experimental strategy can help to handle surprises via alternate phases of corroboration by recursive practice.
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Gross, M. (2006):
Community by experiment: recursive practice in landscape design and ecological restoration
In: McCright, A.M., Clark, T.N. (eds.)
Community and ecology - dynamics of place, sustainability, and politics
Research in Urban Policy 10
Emerald, Bingley, p. 43 - 62