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Grand challenges in restoration ecology
Destruction is so easy, restoration so hard.
Loss can be informative
Even tiny ones.
Global losses have introduced significant need for restoration
addremove observe
needs-driven syntheses
Science for Nature & People
grand challenges
grand challenge is global
grand challenge is a specific critical barrier or set of barriers that ifremoved help solve an important problem
health
innovation
the attributes of a grand challenge
major impacts if solved
ambitious but achievable
compelling & intrinsically motivating
Goldilocks level of specificity
drive & harness innovation
from Tom Kalil, White House
Grand challenges in restoration: steps to build
1. Questions that restoration examines
2. Challenges to effective restoration
3. Matching of questions to challenges
4. Solution synthesis/general blueprint
Sample questions
1. How well does conservation biology and restoration ecology support and enable one another?
2. Does fundamental ecological theory significantly contribute to restoration ecology or does most restoration begin with a ‘problem’ that needs a solution?
3. Is most restoration ecology manipulative? How are mensurative experiments and observation leveraged in restoration ecology?
Sample questions
4. How inter-related are management and restoration in their alignment of needs and research agendas?
5. Are there syntheses of the local-versus-regional drivers that influence the outcome restoration efforts?6. How commonly are the human factors included in restoration efforts or in experiments?
foundations
foundations
restoring natural capital is an opportunity
Aronson
Grand challenges in restorationare interdisciplinary