摘要：Ecological restoration is becoming a main component in nature management; hence, its definitions andinterpretations of the underlying principles are widely discussed. In Denmark, restoration has been implemented for decades,and the LIFE Nature program has contributed to several large-scale projects. Our aim was to indicate tendencies in Danish naturepolicy by analyzing a representative sample of nature management projects. Using qualitative document analyses of officialreports, we investigated how well 13 LIFE Nature cofinanced projects undertaken in Denmark fit with the principles of ecologicalrestoration, as formulated in the nine attributes of the Society for Ecological Restoration's Primer on Ecological Restoration,and based on the five myths of ecological restoration. Objectives of the analyzed projects were divided into three categories:conservation of a single or a group of species; restoration of set-aside areas, mainly on abandoned agricultural land; and habitatmanagement of Natura 2000 areas. Despite this grouping, improvement in living conditions for certain species associated withspecific nature types was in focus in all projects. No projects considered or fulfilled all nine attributes. It seems that attributesassociated with fundamental requirements for the existence of target species or habitats were more often fulfilled than attributesassociated with continuity of the ecosystem as a whole, which indicated a focus on ecosystem structures rather than on processes.We found that the two assumptions of a predictable single endpoint (the myth of the Carbon Copy) and that nature is controllable(the myth of Command and Control) were notably frequent in the Danish projects. Often, the target ecosystem was associatedwith a semicultural landscape, and management focused on keeping the vegetation low and preventing overgrowth of colonizingtrees. The results indicated that nature policy in Denmark and the LIFE Nature program are based on a control paradigm, withthe focus on structures rather than on processes. Further, the results revealed that the definition and interpretation of ecologicalrestoration is ambiguous, and according to land use history, there is a need for concepts and approaches to be clearly defined
关键词：benchmark; ecological restoration; human impact; LIFE Nature; Natura 2000; nature policy; semicultural;landscapes; SER attributes
