num_pages: 256
description: Compelling Fascinating sometimes unexpectedly moving this vitally important book is above all a springboard for hope and transformation.Isabella Tree A lucid and compelling look at the global movement of ecological rehabilitation. The Boston Globe In a time of uncertainty about our environmental futurean eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization. Award-winning science journalist Judith D. Schwartz takes us first to Chinas Loess Plateau where a landmark project has successfully restored a blighted region the size of Belgium lifting millions of people out of poverty. She journeys on to Norway where a young indigenous reindeer herder challenges the most powerful orthodoxies of conservationand his own government. And in the Middle East she follows the visionary work of an ambitious young American as he attempts to re-engineer the desert ecosystem using plants as his most sophisticated technology. Schwartz explores regenerative solutions across a range of deserts grasslands tropics tundra Mediterranean. She also highlights various human landscapes the legacy of colonialism and industrial agriculture and the endurance of indigenous knowledge. The Reindeer Chronicles demonstrates how solutions to seemingly intractable problems can come from the unlikeliest of places and how the restoration of local water carbon nutrient and energy cycles can play a dramatic role in stabilizing the global climate. Ultimately it reveals how much is in our hands if we can find a way to work together and follow natures lead.
language: English
title: The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth
publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing