Table of Contents
Foreword Robert Owen 1
Introduction 4
Part I Our Divided Past 7
Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Britain 9
Roots of Revolution 15
An Island Home 19
The Enclosure of Food 22
A Divided Science 23
Brave Industrial World 25
War and the Enemy 26
Industrial Cereals 28
Industrial Livestock 32
Chapter 2 Ripples of Change 36
The Organic Opposition 36
Conservation of Fragments 37
The Trouble with Fragments and Science 40
Teetering Towards the Whole 44
The Science of Systems 46
Part II Connecting, Rewilding and Regenerating our Present 51
Chapter 3 Nature's Patterns 53
The Base of the Web 54
A Blue Filter 59
Natural Climate Solutions 61
Climbing the Tiny Food Web 62
The Movers and the Shakers 64
How Species Connect and Systems Evolve 68
Links Through Time 73
Memories of Interdependence 76
Chapter 4 Rewilding Conservation 79
Cores, Corridors and Keystones 79
Baselines and Beginnings 84
Native or Not? 89
A Native Human 93
Footing the Bill 94
In Search of Wild(er)ness 95
The Human Role 99
Ecosystems Great and Small 105
The Path from the Sea 109
Chapter 5 Regenerating Agriculture 113
Feeding the Ten Billion 113
A Regenerative Mess 120
Water and Earth 120
Miraculous Soil 126
A Disturbed Sleep 130
Productive Grassland 134
What About Methane? 144
Disturbance and Diversity 146
In an Eternal Land 148
Return to the Sea 151
In Search of Balance 155
Mimicking What? 159
Part III A Whole Future 161
Chapter 6 Integration 163
An Island in the Sea 165
A Cradled Turmoil 169
Nouns and Verbs, Structures and Processes 174
The Final Divide 178
Chapter 7 Emergence 182
Conclusion 186
Author Biography 190
References and Further Reading 191
