Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration

摘要

Tao Orion is a permaculture designer, teacher, homesteader, and mother living in the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon. Her interest in integrating organic agriculture, sustainable land use planning, ethnobotany, and ecosystem restoration is evident in this book. Like all good ecologists, her thoughts and writing are nonlinear, weaving together, rather than stringing together, diverse ideas. Beyond the War on Invasive Species is not a polemic. It discusses particular "invasive" species in relation to ecological principles and processes, not to establish a particular viewpoint, but to explore possible explanations and future actions. The book thus explains ecology and permaculture using invasive species as examples.