Anticipating Future Environments Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin

Restoration efforts in the Columbia River Basin―a vast and diverse landscape experiencing warming waters, less snowpack, and greater fluctuations in precipitation―may offer answers to some of these questions. Shana Hirsch tells the story of restoration science in the basin, surveying its past and detailing the work of today's salmon habitat restoration efforts. Her analysis offers critical insight into scientific practices, emerging approaches and ways of thinking, the incorporation of future climate change scenarios into planning, and the ultimate transformation―or adaptation―of the science of ecological restoration. For scientists and environmental managers around the globe, Anticipating Future Environments will shed light on how to more effectively cope with climate change.
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