tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335282342199437427.post2338593638102201769..comments2023-05-19T04:58:19.635-07:00Comments on Restoration Ecology Discussion Forum: Top Ten Restoration Ecology Papers for DesignersKatharine Sudinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13206223671817679551noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335282342199437427.post-51829375590962474132010-11-12T07:05:03.977-08:002010-11-12T07:05:03.977-08:00Absolutely. Your framing of your criteria for the...Absolutely. Your framing of your criteria for the selection of your Top 10 is perfect. Have you considered how you might disseminate the list to the UCB LAEP MLA list/have it incorporated in the LA251 Theories curriculum?<br /><br />Your framing also calls to mind, for me, the need for ecologists to think of the communication principals inherent in design, and how greater collaboration on this could help the overall movement of restoration. I am thinking of the patch of grassland at the UCB Richmond Station. Many people would see that area as a wasteland, particularly when there is little knowledge about the dormant period, that needs to be converted to a use for the pressing urban population. Of course the next thought is to that of funding for this interface to occur...and so on to the next thought...Terra Lightfoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443000003361046133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335282342199437427.post-61787624887674499742010-11-11T19:11:56.471-08:002010-11-11T19:11:56.471-08:00Very glad to have this subject addressed, and this...Very glad to have this subject addressed, and this list! <br /><br />In my comments to Gustavo's post, I brought up the benefit of conceiving of some urban remediation work by designers, architects, and landscape architects as novel ecological systems. That is,'interventions' that might be part of a project - even if not a classic restoration - could be based on an understanding that complex novel systems could deliver beneficial ecological services. <br /><br />Many forward-thinking competitions and forward-thinking designers already make claims in this direction, but without the scientific rigor. How do we begin to get this dimension into the design fields? Or even into CED? <br /><br />How does the field of restoration ecology reach these design professions?Molly Mehaffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01859792630843181455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335282342199437427.post-45956974750224195512010-11-11T17:28:01.855-08:002010-11-11T17:28:01.855-08:00Bravo! I love your opening statement, and wholehea...Bravo! I love your opening statement, and wholeheartedly agree! This list should be required reading for our 201 class, many of our fellow designers (and teachers) could benefit for this. However, despite all of our reading, the complexity of some ecological systems and designs, would also require direct consultation with ecologists.Jessie Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03272905199690166374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335282342199437427.post-81548878397618267402010-11-11T16:50:40.945-08:002010-11-11T16:50:40.945-08:00I really liked your objective with this list... it...I really liked your objective with this list... it really calls into question who the list is for. If this list eventually makes it into a journal, how do we make sure the 'right' people are reading it? <br /><br />My impression from class this semester is that restoration practitioners need to have more ecology, ecologists need to have more social science, and we all need to think about the values underlying what we are restoring and why. I think when we wrote our list we were probably aiming it more at ecologists. But one thing we've learned here that all the science in the world won't help if people on the ground don't know about it and understand it. And it also won't help if the overall political climate prevents needed paradigm shifts. Do policymakers and architects read journals like Restoration Ecology? Or do mostly ecologists read it? Just thinking outside the box. :)Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06403473916542179793noreply@blogger.com