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Ecosystem Restoration

Your community's sustainable revitalization program should eventually encompass--or at least collaborate with--the renewal of your entire region, for maximum effectiveness.  But, it can start with a primary focus on any of the 12 sectors of restorable assets, at any scale. 

Ecosystem restoration can be a great starting point for community revitalization if you have a wealth of restorable natural assets. Many times, distressed conservation areas come back to life in a spectacular manner simply by restoring their connections to other natural areas.  Reconnecting existing protected areas can be far less expensive than setting aside new protected areas, and less expensive that restoring the protected areas themselves.  Efforts to reestablish natural flows of water, migrating wildlife, etc. provide a logical starting point for regional efforts. 

If you've already got a strong ecosystem restoration organization, it could be an ideal sponsor for your community's Real Revitalization Program.  Is this organization trusted and effective?  Does it wish to take an even larger, longer-term role in the community's future? If so, sponsoring the Real Revitalization Program is also the best way to help it create (or become) a revitalization forum

A revitalization forum is a permanent public-private organization that supports an ongoing revitalization program.  [Note: Readers of reWealth (McGraw-Hill, 2008) will recognize this type of organization as what that book technically referred to as a "renewal engine". It was revealed as the key factor behind the most dramatic urban regeneration success stories documented in reWealth.]

Definition & overview: The short definition of ecosystem restoration is "Ecological restoration is an intentional activity that initiates or accelerates the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity and sustainability". 

For a more comprehensive definition of ecosystem restoration, as well as an excellent primer on the subject, read the Primer on Ecological Restoration published by the Society for Ecological Restoration International.

 


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