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ENG:
The project of repairing and healing a damaged earth has a long and fascinating past. Natural resource managers today call this pursuit restoration, renaturing or perhaps rewilding, but its main activities have taken many forms over the last century. The reader joins the great environmental thinker, George Perkins Marsh, to travel between North America and Europe for discovering many ways of undoing environmental wrongs. Russian readers will appreciate that Marsh's greatest insight- that "man is everywhere a disturbing agent" — appeared in his Человек и природа (1866), shortly after the original English edition to begin motivating new environmental practices in their own vast landscapes.
RUS:
Проект по оздоровлению поврежденной земли имеет давнее и увлекательное прошлое. Этот процесс обычно называют рекультивацией или восстановлением, и он имеет множество разных форм. На страницах этой книги читатель месте с великим экологическим мыслителем Джорджем Перкинсом Маршем отправится в путешествие между Северной Амер
About the author
Marcus Hall is an environmental historian at the University of Zurich. Hall's research interests have focused on such subjects as restoring, rewilding, invasive species, warfare, earth art, chronobiology, malaria, parasites and microbes. His books include
Earth Repair (2005),
Restoration and History (2010),
Nature and History in Modern Italy (2010, with Marco Armiero) and
Mosquitopia (2021, with Dan Tamir).
