Chapter 1

Question 1

Practice of conservation where ecological functions & evolutionary processes, which are thought to have existed in past ecosystems or before human influence, are deliberately restored or created; this practice often requires the reintroduction or restoration of large predators to ecosystems

Answer 1

Rewilding

Question 2

A metaphoric term sometimes applied to our current era, when people exert enormous influence on environments all around the Earth, but where control of these environments & their enormously complex ecologies is inevitably elusive

Answer 2

Anthropocene

Question 3

An approach to environmental issues that unites issues of ecology with a broadly defined political economy perspective

Answer 3

Political ecology

Question 4

A science of imagining, creating, & sustaining habitats, productive environments, & biodiversity in places used, traveled, & inhabited by human beings

Answer 4

Reconciliation Ecology