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Oral Histories from Restored Landscapes: Lessons in Community-Based Landscape Restoration from the Habitat Stewardship Project
Abstract:
<p>As an emerging practice of social and environmental care, community-based landscape restoration is an emerging means of addressing social fragmentation, public environmental education, habitat and biodiversity losses, climate mitigation, and other similar issues in a variety of contexts around the globe. Because of its adaptability into these contexts, community-based landscape restoration is a useful tool to address overlapping and entangled socio-environmental issues as experienced in place. Yet with social inequalities deepening and the effects of environmental change becoming only more pronounced, efforts to enact community-based landscape restoration are all the more urgent. This paper relies on archival and oral historical sources to reflect on the historical development and future promise of community-based landscape restoration from the perspective of the Habitat Stewardship Project (HSP), whose efforts across nearly 30 years in Monterey County, California, have restored substantial areas of the central California coast region. Because of its persistence across several decades, interviews and other sources from leaders and participants in the HSP offer some insights into the past, practices, and potential for community-based habitat restoration.</p>
Keywords: habitat restoration, interdisciplinarity, oral history, California
Authors:
Seth Gustafson, CSU - Monterey Bay; Submitting Author / Primary Presenter
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Oral Histories from Restored Landscapes: Lessons in Community-Based Landscape Restoration from the Habitat Stewardship Project
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