<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/niu-fde030118.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"></div><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/niu-fde030118.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; display: inline !important;" class=""><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px; display: inline !important;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; display: inline !important;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Public Release: 1-Mar-2018</font></span></div></header></a></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Fixing damaged ecosystems: How much does restoration help?</font></span></h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY</font></span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Billions of dollars are spent annually on repairing ecosystems damaged by people. A new meta-analysis of <b class=""><font face="Arial" class="">400 studies that document recovery </font></b>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.</font></span></p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></span></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences</font></em></dd></dl></a><div class=""><b class="">Full release</b></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/niu-fde030118.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/niu-fde030118.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Excerpt:</b> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"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," </span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.niu.edu/index.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Northern Illinois University</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> scientist </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.niu.edu/ese/campusexperiences/research/facultypages/Holly-Jones.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Holly Jones</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> said.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">**************************************************<br class=""><br class="">"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."<br class=""><br class="">Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984<br class=""><br class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">“Access to more capital makes bigger crises feasible: every now and then, somewhere in the world, one is going to happen.<br class=""><br class="">“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.”<br class=""><br class="">“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.”</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">The Economist, “A cruel sea of capital : A survey of global finance,” May 3rd, 2003.</div>
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