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SER produces definitions and standards for the practice of ecological restoration, including the SER International Primer on Ecological Restoration (2004), [2] International Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration (2016), [3] [4] [5] and a certification program for professionals: Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP ...
The Green Burial Society of Canada [50] was founded in 2013 with the goal to ensure standards of certification are set for green burial practices. [51] The society emphasizes five principles of green burial: no embalming, direct earth burial, ecological restoration and conservation, communal memorialization, and the optimization of land use. [52]
Ohio EPA has several regulatory divisions that play different roles in environmental protection. Each division issues permits to regulate industries that pollute in a specific area, like air emissions or wastewater discharges to rivers and streams. The permits include requirements for operating, monitoring and reporting compliance.
The Land Restoration School at Crossroads at Big Creek plans to teach six to 12 adults interested in an ecological field over eight weeks each summer.
The Society for Ecological Restoration defines restoration as "the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed." [1] Restoration ecology is the academic study of the science of restoration, whereas ecological restoration is the implementation by practitioners. [21]
Members of the Forest Landowners Association are a diverse group of individual & institutional landowners, consulting foresters, and corporations. Motives for their support are varied but FLA is an advocate of all private landowners-regardless of size, corporate structure, location, certification status, or tax classification.
A reference ecosystem, also known as an ecological reference, is a "community of organisms able to act as a model or benchmark for restoration." [1] [2] [3] Reference ecosystems usually include remnant natural areas that have not been degraded by human activities such as agriculture, logging, development, fire suppression, or non-native species invasion.
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration is a 2022 book by Laura J. Martin, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College. [1] [2] The book explains how ecological restoration became a global pursuit. [3] Martin defines restoration as "an attempt to co-design nature with non-human collaborators."