Beschreibung:
Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle readers, illustrated with many color photographs. Readers will find out what urban rewilding is and how it can make our lives (and our planet) safer and healthier.
What if the new key to making our lives safer (and even healthier) is to allow the wilderness back into our cities?
Going wild. We don't see it as a good thing. And why would we? For most of our time on earth, humanity has been running from lions and other wilderness dangers. We've worked hard to make our local landscapes as safe and convenient as possible. Sometimes that's meant paving over areas that might burst into weeds. Other times, we've dammed rivers for electricity or irrigation. But now pollution, climate change and disruptions to the water cycle are affecting the world in ways we never anticipated.
Introduction
Chapter One: paving the way
- Mmm, Wild Breakfast
- Grow It Yourself
- A Wheely Good Idea
- Nature? Not Today, Thanks
- Beware the Wild Beasts!
- Factories for the Future
- Pave It!
- Through the Cracks
Chapter Two: Road Block
- Helloooo Under There!
- A Lawn? How Royal!
- Biodiversity Blues
- Make Way for Water
- Rewild the Wildlife!
- Sprouting Something Good
Chapter Three: Life in the City
- My Way or the Highway?
- Marsh This Way
- Going Wild Downtown
- Big, Scary Nature
- The Host with the Most
- Flower Power
- Going Batty
- The Dirt on Cities
Chapter Four: Wildlife Welcome
- Climb That Tree!
- Sidewalk Safari
- Dirt to the Rescue
- Find Your Human Herd
- Tree-mendous Kid Power
- Be a Scientist, Citizen
- Walking on the Wild Side
- Welcome Home
Resources
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Index
Going wild. We don't see it as a good thing. And why would we? For most of our time on earth, humanity has been running from lions and other wilderness dangers. We've worked hard to make our local landscapes as safe and convenient as possible. Sometimes that's meant paving over areas that might burst into weeds. Other times, we've dammed rivers for electricity or irrigation. But now pollution, climate change and disruptions to the water cycle are affecting the world in ways we never anticipated. What if the new key to making our lives safer (and even healthier) is to allow the wilderness back into our cities?