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Land restoration and reclamation: principles and practice.

J. Arthur Harris, P. Birch, J. P. Palmer

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Foreword by Andre F Clewell, President of the Society for Ecological Restoration, USA Section 1: Causes of degradation and aims of restoration 1. Land as a resource 2. Assessment strategies Section 2: Reclamation of Land 3. Green field sites 4. Former industrial sites Section 3: Restoration of reclaimed land 5. Preparing the substrate for growth and reclamation to agro-forestry uses 6. The establishment and management of vegetation on restored sites 7. Why restorations fail 8. Conclusion

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Key concepts: Land reclamation, Land restoration, Section (typography), Restoration ecology, Vegetation (pathology), Resource (disambiguation), Land degradation, Environmental resource management