12/16/2023 0 Comments New world vs old world" The provocative title is part of the central aim of the book: to reorient environmental thinking away from nature as normative foundation and toward a practical engagement with our socially created, lived environment. The title of Steven Vogel's book is, of course, a play on Aldo Leopold's famous " Thinking like a Mountain. Has restoration’s transatlantic divide simply dissolved? Perhaps restorationists on both sides of the Atlantic are simply naturing, re-naturing or new naturing, by bringing back better forms of nature, with little regard to how wild it may be. The puzzle, however, is that today Europeans are increasingly joining Americans in rewilding. Wilderness is traditionally an American thing, and many say that “real” wilderness simply doesn’t exist in Europe, even in northern Scandinavia-and hasn’t for a long time. To put this in a transatlantic context, North Americans may be much more comfortable rewilding, whereas Europeans are adept at gardening and regardening. In the project of repairing degraded natural systems, do we aim to bring back a pristine, wild state or else a more humanized, pastoral state? Re-wilding is the general label of the former goal, whereas re-gardening might be the best descriptor of the latter effort. Of the many challenges facing ecological restoration, the one most often receiving attention is the issue of selecting a goal or target state.
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