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000294810 1001_ $$aReice, Seth Robert,$$d1947-2014.
000294810 24514 $$aThe silver lining :$$bthe benefits of natural disasters /$$cSeth R. Reice.
000294810 260__ $$aPrinceton, N.J. :$$bPrinceton University Press,$$cc2001.
000294810 300__ $$axi, 218 p. :$$bill. ;$$c23 cm.
000294810 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000294810 50500 $$gch. 1.$$tThe more things change, the more they stay the same --$$gch. 2.$$tDisturbance, patchiness, and communities --$$gch. 3.$$tRecolonization, or How do all those species fill up the gaps? --$$gch. 4.$$tDisturbance ecology and fire management : "Let it burn!" --$$gch. 5.$$tDisturbance ecology and flood control --$$gch. 6.$$tBiodiversity, ecosystem services, and human needs --$$gch. 7.$$tHuman-caused disturbance : all disturbances are not created equal --$$gch. 8.$$tToward an ecological worldview.
000294810 520__ $$aFloods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes--we are quick to call them "natural disasters." But are they? Did the great fires that swept Yellowstone in 1988 devastate the park, or did they just ravage our image of the park as a fixed, unchanging national treasure? This lucid, lively book reveals the shortsightedness behind conceiving of such events as disastrous to nature. Indeed, Seth Reice contends, such thinking has led to policies that have done the environment more harm than good--the U.S. Forest Service's campaign against natural forest fires and the Army Corps of Engineers' flood prevention program are examples. He points out ways in which we can better address the wide range of environmental problems humanity faces at the dawn of the new millennium. Reice argues that the traditional, equilibrium paradigm--according to which "stability" produces healthier ecosystems than does sudden, sweeping change--is fundamentally flawed. He describes a radically different model of how nature operates, one that many ecologists and population biologists have come to understand in recent years: a concept founded on the premise that disturbances help create and maintain the biodiversity that benefits both the ecosystem and ourselves. Reice demonstrates that ecosystems need disturbances to accomplish indispensable tasks such as the production of clean air and water. He recommends changes in environmental management to incorporate the essential role of natural disturbances.
000294810 650_0 $$aEcological disturbances.
000294810 650_0 $$aNatural disasters$$xEnvironmental aspects.
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