“Now we know the most important resource
is human motivation- hope, caring, our feelings
about nature and our fellow human beings.”
– Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Broadly, "restoration" means "to bring back to a former position or condition".
In practice, restoration shares common threads but also has unique differences across the disciplines of ecology, biology, and personal health. Considering the facets of restoration within one field can contribute to the other related disciplines.
Below is a concept development matrix which I designed to help understand restoration more deeply and comprehensively. In it, three different types of restoration (ecology, biology, and personal) are overlapped with three qualities of restoration (goals, focus, and areas of scientific research).
