Ecological restoration requires value-laden choices about what goals, references, and methods to use in a particular area. The restoration ecology literature has identified a number of interrelated dilemmas pertaining among others to the use of historical references or the creation of novel ecosystems and to the selection of appropriate measures of intervention. In this study, we investigate the narratives that Dutch professionals in ecological restoration use to justify these choices and we analyze the values, beliefs, and human-nature relationships they reflect. Based on our analysis, we identify three interrelated sets of values, beliefs, and human-nature relationships, which we call here narrative clusters. These are: (1) virtuous stewa...
Ecological restoration is essential both to a sustainable human culture and to the well being of the...
Legitimacy of environmental management and policies is an important topic in environmental research....
The trade off between ecology and economy has become an important issue in the evaluation of planned...
Ecological restoration requires value-laden choices about what goals, references, and methods to use...
This thesis theoretically assesses ecological restoration from the point of view of environmental et...
Marine areas have been heavily affected by human activities, resulting in current attempts to both c...
Drenthen explores interesting lines of argument within debates on nature restoration in the Netherla...
In 1989 De Oostvaardersplassen was established by the Dutch government. This wildlife refuge is a pa...
This thesis aims to achieve a better understanding of: (1) theoretical aspects of humannature relati...
For most of the twentieth century, nature conservation activities were connected to the protection o...
For most of the twentieth century, nature conservation activities were connected to the protection o...
For most of the twentieth century, nature conservation activities were connected to the protection o...
1. Applied ecology, like conservation research, may deal with societal issues if its scientifically ...
The environmental issues we face today are caused by a historical conceptual separation of nature fr...
esearch on attitudes of the general public toward nature conservation often focuses on values, belie...
Ecological restoration is essential both to a sustainable human culture and to the well being of the...
Legitimacy of environmental management and policies is an important topic in environmental research....
The trade off between ecology and economy has become an important issue in the evaluation of planned...
Ecological restoration requires value-laden choices about what goals, references, and methods to use...
This thesis theoretically assesses ecological restoration from the point of view of environmental et...
Marine areas have been heavily affected by human activities, resulting in current attempts to both c...
Drenthen explores interesting lines of argument within debates on nature restoration in the Netherla...
In 1989 De Oostvaardersplassen was established by the Dutch government. This wildlife refuge is a pa...
This thesis aims to achieve a better understanding of: (1) theoretical aspects of humannature relati...
For most of the twentieth century, nature conservation activities were connected to the protection o...
For most of the twentieth century, nature conservation activities were connected to the protection o...
For most of the twentieth century, nature conservation activities were connected to the protection o...
1. Applied ecology, like conservation research, may deal with societal issues if its scientifically ...
The environmental issues we face today are caused by a historical conceptual separation of nature fr...
esearch on attitudes of the general public toward nature conservation often focuses on values, belie...
Ecological restoration is essential both to a sustainable human culture and to the well being of the...
Legitimacy of environmental management and policies is an important topic in environmental research....
The trade off between ecology and economy has become an important issue in the evaluation of planned...