Year: 2004
Type: dissertation
Abstract: A remote outpost of land in the greatest expanse of ocean on the globe, Hkwai'i is remarkable for both its biological and ciiltural diversity and history-A polyglot of skin tones, customs, cvdtures and habits has rooted in a location that already harbors a significant population of people who identify themselves quite powerfully as "native/' The plants and animals native to the islands exist, by and large, nowhere else on the planet, and the very rock of the islands is still being bom.At the same time, the familiar homogenizing forces of the modem world are at work diere, both in culture and ecosystems.I rely on my experiences as a restoration ecology intern in the park to explore the meaning and history of ecological restoration, while also questioning what it means to ''be native" to a place.The inextricable twining between the efforts to protect and preserve culture and ecological restoration illustrate how incomplete our understanding of this incredibly complex island ecosystem is if the human element of the local natural history is absent-and how cmcial it is for each of us to have an intimate relationship with our home place.Restorationof hope, humility, stories and landscapes-^is essential to Hawaii's future, if it is to have a future at all, just as it is for so many wild places.
Source: The Mathematics Enthusiast
Author: Katharine I. Hyzy
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W802778537