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Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration
Completely updated to keep pace with current technology.
* Provides a firm grounding the fundamentals, theory, and latest techniques.
* Includes completely updated case studies.
* Provides a firm grounding the fundamentals, theory, and latest techniques.
* Includes completely updated case studies.
424 pages, Hardcover
First published September 18, 2003
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December 5, 2021
On the plus side: there is really some great coverage of the field with a wide range of different settings and applications. There are a lot of practical real-life case studies, as well as some nice initial framing of ecosystems in general. I thought the advice on maintaining ecologically-plausible mass/energy/count balances when modeling was particularly strong.
On the negative side: the organization of this book is really quite strange, almost as though it was written by a committee in a hurry. It feels very much like a compilation of previous work instead of fully synthesized into its own work. For example, the advice on modeling only comes at the end, when it really could have been useful to have co-developed with the case studies. Similarly, a list of principles, which could have been better illustrated by the case studies, comes before them and seems unrelated (although there is also a semi-overlapping list for general principles in wetland creation/restoration). The chapter on soil bio-remediation demonstrates this lack of cohesive organization at its most extreme, where there are two separate sections for remediating heavy metals.
Overall, there's a lot of good material here, but you're really on your own in figuring out how to navigate it. If I were to reread the whole thing, I'd probably have three bookmarks: one each in the major sections.
On the negative side: the organization of this book is really quite strange, almost as though it was written by a committee in a hurry. It feels very much like a compilation of previous work instead of fully synthesized into its own work. For example, the advice on modeling only comes at the end, when it really could have been useful to have co-developed with the case studies. Similarly, a list of principles, which could have been better illustrated by the case studies, comes before them and seems unrelated (although there is also a semi-overlapping list for general principles in wetland creation/restoration). The chapter on soil bio-remediation demonstrates this lack of cohesive organization at its most extreme, where there are two separate sections for remediating heavy metals.
Overall, there's a lot of good material here, but you're really on your own in figuring out how to navigate it. If I were to reread the whole thing, I'd probably have three bookmarks: one each in the major sections.
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