Handbook of Ecological Restoration: Volume 1, Principles of Restoration

This two-volume handbook is a comprehensive account of the rapidly emerging and vibrant science of the ecological restoration of habitats and species. Ecological restoration aims to achieve complete structural, functional, self-maintaining biological integrity following disturbance. In practice, any theoretical model is modified by a number of economic, social, and ecological constraints. Consequently, material that might be considered as rehabilitation, enhancement, re-construction, or re-creation is also included. Principles of Restoration defines the underlying principles of restoration ecology in relation to manipulations and management of the biological, geophysical, and chemical framework.

Martin Perrow is an ecological consultant at ECON, based in the University of East Anglia.

Anthony Davy is Head of Population and Conservation Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia.