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A few decades ago, New York City’s Bronx River was an open sewer and European bison had all but disappeared from Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Today, thanks to NGOs and the efforts of local communities, the Bronx River is healthy enough for fish and bison are once again grazing their historic range.
We can’t turn back time, writes Mihnea Tanasescu, but in restoring damaged landscapes, we may be able to restore people’s relationship with their environment, thus ensuring that conservation continues.
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The Bronx River will never be the way it used to be, but it sure looks a lot better today than it did 20 years ago.
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Mihnea Tanasescu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We can't return degraded landscapes to their original state but we can change the way people relate to their local environments.
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Business + Economy
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Ameeta Jain, Deakin University; Sandeep Gopalan, Deakin University
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Health + Medicine
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Stevan Bruijns, University of Cape Town
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Miranda Davies-Tuck, Hudson Institute; Euan Wallace, Hudson Institute; Mary-Ann Davey, Monash University
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Politics + Society
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Daniela DeBono, European University Institute
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