在这个对环境未来不确定的时代，一个让人大开眼界的全球之旅，参观了地球上一些最受伤害的地方，以及一群充满激情的生态修复者如何引领他们的复兴的故事。

屡获殊荣的科学记者Judith D. Schwartz首先带我们来到了中国的黄土高原，在那里，一个具有里程碑意义的项目成功地恢复了像比利时这样大的贫困地区，使数百万人摆脱了贫困。她继续前往挪威，在那里，一位年轻的土著驯鹿牧人挑战着最强大的保护措施——以及他自己的政府。在中东，她讲述了一位雄心勃勃的年轻美国人的远见作品，他试图重新设计沙漠生态系统，将植物作为他最复杂的技术。

她探索跨越一系列景观的再生解决方案：沙漠、草原、热带、冻土原、地中海。她还强调了各种人类景观，殖民主义和工业农业的遗产，以及土著知识的耐力。《驯鹿编年史》展示了解决看似棘手的问题的解决方案常常来自于我们意想不到地地方，以及恢复当地的水、碳、营养和能源循环如何在稳定全球气候方面发挥重要作用。说到底，它揭示了如果我们跟随大自然的脚步，我们手上其实有很多解决问题的方案。

作者：

Judith D. Schwartz is a journalist whose work explores nature-based solutions to global environmental and economic challenges. She writes on this theme for numerous publications and speaks at venues around the world. She is the author of Cows Save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School and Brown University, she lives in southern Vermont.

好评：

“This book provides hope that devastated ecosystems can be revived, and that it requires doing more than just letting nature take its course. . . . Very much worth reading for anyone who cares about the state of the planet."-- Shelf Awareness

“In this worthwhile look at conservation, journalist Schwartz sheds light on a global and ‘growing cohort of scientists, mavericks, and young people’ engaged in the ‘participatory sport’ of land restoration.”-- Publishers Weekly

"A lucid and compelling look at the global movement of ecological rehabilitation."―The Boston Globe

“Thoughtful and thought-provoking, Judith Schwartz’s world tour of environmental solutions shows how nature itself can heal the wounds we have inflicted on our planet. Compelling, fascinating, sometimes unexpectedly moving, this vitally important book is, above all, a springboard for hope and transformation.”―Isabella Tree, author of Wilding

“In The Reindeer Chronicles, Judith Schwartz proves, once again, that she is one of ecology’s most indispensable writers. Like her last two books, Cows Save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight, her new work is an insightful, globe-trotting exploration of promising techniques for restoring our soil, water, agricultural systems, and wildlife. The Reindeer Chronicles is at once visionary and pragmatic―clear-eyed about the immense planetary challenges we face, yet unfailingly hopeful about our ability to forge a new relationship with nature. This book shows us what Aldo Leopold’s land ethic looks like in the twenty-first century.”―Ben Goldfarb, PEN America Literary Award-winning author of Eager

“This book shows us again and again, across the globe, the abundant future that is possible if we work with nature. Stunning stories of re-greening landscapes, restoring carbon and water cycles, and repairing weather. It is a balm and a guide, a wellspring of grounded hope.”―Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, PhD, founder of Urban Ocean Lab and of Ocean Collectiv

“Judith Schwartz unlocks yet one more door in our minds about what’s possible when we work with nature’s cycles rather than try to push her around. Through this book and her prior ones, you can practically see, taste, and smell a healing earth that includes humans as stewards, not ravaging locusts. If you want practical hope, this is it. If you want a place to dig in and make change, regeneration is the key. These are stories of people who work both intimately and at scale―and with love―to restore life to the land we all walk on, our beautiful home, the earth.”―Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life and author of Blessing the Hands that Feed Us

“A tale of people restoring nature and their communities. These deeply optimistic dispatches from around the world show us that the key to restoring land is how we see it―the change begins in us.”―David R. Montgomery, author of Growing A Revolution

“As the regenerative agriculture movement grows worldwide, Judith Schwartz has emerged as a leading tracker and interpreter of its progress, challenges, and wins. The value of Schwartz’s multifaceted work and engaging first-person style is that a broader and deeper canvas emerges.

“Schwartz’s descriptions and analyses are not rosy-eyed, but instead comprise a balanced, warts-and-all approach mixed with extraordinary tales of transformation of vast and small ecosystems, landscapes and farms, societies and communities; of food systems; and of human physical and mental health. As she says, ‘earth repair is a participatory sport,’ and ‘restoration can begin anywhere.’

“This is an excellent read for expert and newcomer alike, and an important contribution to a growing canon now offering some of the very best solutions to the onrushing Anthropocene crisis.”―Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler

“These are times that call for us to reimagine everything. That imaginative capacity depends on the stories, the possibilities, the experiences we have in our memory and our ability to reassemble them in new and unique ways. If you want to be part of that reimagining, you need the beautiful, patient, humbling stories in these pages. Their implications are staggering, and also suggest that sometimes we save the world by doing less rather than more. Do your imagination, your activism, your sense of what’s possible a favor, and swim in this book.”―Rob Hopkins, author of From What Is to What If