Generation Restoration

Dr. Jane Goodall’s Foreword for Generation Restoration xiii 1 Squandering Our Natural Wealth 1 Restoration in One Generation 2 Nature Gone Bust 4 Shifting Baseline Syndrome 11 Tipping Point 14 Resilience Starts with Us 24 2 A Century of Ecology 29 Ecology: The Science of Our Only Home 31 A New Century of Ecology 41 Ecological Literacy for Everyone 42 3 Nature Is Us: A Tale of Reciprocity 57 Nature Is Many, Nature Is One 58 Nature Is Us 61 Counterproductive Conservation 72 A New Hope 77 So, Are We Part of Nature? 83 4 The Value of Nature 85 “It’s the Ecology, Stupid!” 86 A New Economy Emerges 93 The Oldest New Financial Asset Class 99 A Restoration Boom 111 All the Money in the World 115 5 The World Plus 10 Percent 119 Take No More Than Half 120 A Movement Is Born: Acción Andina 124 Living in Harmony with Nature: Satoyama 135 The World’s Largest Protected Area Network: Natura 2000 137 The Guardians of Nature 139 Respect for Mother Nature 143 A New Relationship 149 6 A Trillion Trees 153 The Power of Trees 154 Resetting Our Relationship with Forests 156 A Rights-Based Approach 162 Trailblazer 165 Learning from the Forest 170 Forests Under Scrutiny 175 Is It Too Late? 178 7 World Restoration Flagships 183 Brazil’s Atlantic Forest 184 Farther Than the Eye Can See 193 The Arc of Restoration in the Brazilian Amazon 196 Community-Based Natural Farming in India 198 A New Restoration Economy in South Africa 200 Building with Nature in Indonesia 205 Restoring Planet Earth 206 8 Stubborn Optimists 209 The Future We Want 210 A Journey Forward to Nature 215 Generation Restoration from Local to Global 227 Epilogue: The Freedom to Choose 229 Taking Action 233 Notes 239 Acknowledgments 265 About the Author 267 Index 269