[MCN] I have pdf: Politicians boast of money poured into forest restoration

Lance Olsen lance at wildrockies.org
Thu Mar 1 10:03:20 EST 2018


Public Release: 1-Mar-2018
Fixing damaged ecosystems: How much does restoration help?
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Billions of dollars are spent annually on repairing ecosystems damaged by people. A new meta-analysis of 400 studies that document recovery from such large-scale disturbances worldwide suggests that while ecosystems can bounce back, they rarely mend completely, with the final stages of recovery being most difficult. The study also found that more costly active restoration efforts did not consistently result in faster or more complete recovery.

JOURNAL
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/niu-fde030118.php>Public Release: 1-Mar-2018 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/niu-fde030118.php>
Fixing damaged ecosystems: How much does restoration help?
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Billions of dollars are spent annually on repairing ecosystems damaged by people. A new meta-analysis of 400 studies that document recovery from such large-scale disturbances worldwide suggests that while ecosystems can bounce back, they rarely mend completely, with the final stages of recovery being most difficult. The study also found that more costly active restoration efforts did not consistently result in faster or more complete recovery.

JOURNAL
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Full release
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/niu-fde030118.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/niu-fde030118.php>

Excerpt: 

"Our study suggests that, in many cases, once damaging activities are halted, the most economically expedient restoration strategy might be to let ecosystems repair themselves," Northern Illinois University <http://www.niu.edu/index.shtml> scientist Holly Jones <https://www.niu.edu/ese/campusexperiences/research/facultypages/Holly-Jones.shtml> said.


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"The ultimate outcome of a policy is not what determines its qualification as folly. …. It qualifies as folly when it is a perverse persistence in a policy demonstrably unworkable or counter-productive. It is almost superfluous to say that the present study stems from the ubiquity of this problem in our time."

Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984

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“Access to more capital makes bigger crises feasible: every now and then, somewhere in the world, one is going to happen.

“Is this because the same mistakes are made again and again, or is each crisis unique?  The answer is yes to both :  each crisis is unique, and the same mistakes are made again and again.”

“Banks have proved themselves to be the most hazardous economic institution known to man. Breakdowns in banking lie at the centre of most financial crises. And banks are unusually effective at spreading financial distress, once it starts, from one place to another. It is tempting to conclude that banks should simply be abolished. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to be possible. Banks seem to be necessary.”

The Economist, “A cruel sea of capital : A survey of global finance,” May 3rd, 2003.

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