Why this word is great
RECLAMATION — [Noun] The process of claiming back or converting something neglected, damaged, or hostile to a state of productive use, most specifically land from marsh or sea. From Middle French réclamation, from Latin reclamationem, a noun of action from reclamare ("to cry out against, reclaim"), from re- ("back, against") + clamare ("to cry out"). Unlike restoration, which seeks to return to an imagined original, or recovery, a simple regaining of possession, reclamation is a stubborn act of creative, pragmatic conversion. It is the saline seep of rainwater leaching salt from a polder; the coarse, tenacious grass taking root in a slag heap; the determined geometry of a rice terrace carved from a mountainside—a testament to the human insistence that from loss, a new utility can be forged against enduring resistance.