Earth Repair - Marcus Hall

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Résumé :
Environmental restoration is now a widespread pursuit, as landscape designers, engineers, and professional biologists seek to restore degraded landscapes to some previous, more desirable, state. In this prize-winning work, Marcus Hall shows that such restoration is not a new endeavor but an idea with strong roots in the nineteenth century, particularly in the work of the pioneering American conservationist, George Perkins Marsh. While Marsh served as the American ambassador to Italy from 1861 to 1881, he wrote his influential work, Man and Nature, which Hall calls "...

Biographie:
By examining the history of restoration in both the United States and Italy since 1850, Hall reveals how the idea and practice of "...

Sommaire:
the world's first comprehensive warning of the human propensity to degrade natural systems."...