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This timely and thought-provoking volume, Ecosystems and their Relationship to Human Sustainability, presents and explains the latest scientific work and projections of probable climate changes and makes strong arguments for fossil fuel transition and the protection of surviving large ecosystems and biomes. CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Authors: Gabrielle Harris Freelance Writer and Editor Gabrielle Harris lives in rural France, working as a freelance writer, editor ,and self-appointed “guerrilla gardener,” filling in unclaimed barren spaces with new soil for micro-organisms and insects, greenery and food for bees, unexpected developments for human education and continuing to “infect” people she meets with curiosity about everything from compost to carbon drawdown. Gabrielle studied Chinese at SOAS, London University, majoring in early Chinese philosophy and later pursued postgraduate studies in history and economics at Nanjing University in China. During her long career, she has been a journalist, researcher, manager, translator and facilitator (in English, Chinese, and French), a development project director, designer, and entrepreneur. She wrote the first book on Bank Automation in China in 1988 when she worked at the China division of International Data Corporation, and later wrote or co-wrote many papers on methodologies and tools facilitating inclusive finance. In 2012, Gabrielle was awarded as an “Outstanding Person Working in Financial Inclusion” by the China Microfinance Institution Association. In 2019, she published Non-Orthodox Economics and their Social and Environmental Drivers, which links the history of classical economics and its critics with our current environmental problems and the economic frameworks that do take into account the environment of the Earth as an integral part of the economic system. Gabrielle Harris has been deeply committed to studying the environment since 2007, when her friend John D. Liu began to focus on the importance of fertile, water-retaining soils and the accumulation of organic matter as the key to human and animal well-being. Also feeding into her understanding were the insights of her dear friend Josef Margraf, whose final mission and work was to turn rubber plantations in Southwest China into biodiverse spaces, up until his untimely death in 2010. Gabrielle lived and worked in China from 1980 until the end of 2014. Set in perpetual motion by her two mentors, Gabrielle studied permaculture with Geoff Lawton and many other experts, and these days she continues to learn about all aspects of regenerative practices, especially those that build fertile soil communities and retain water. She has become convinced of the efficacy of permaculture-oriented systems thinking in tackling and reversing humanity’s self-inflicted problems. Much of her knowledge of restoration of ecosystems came from observing and working with the roll-out of China’s “ecological policy” in rural China. These policies paid farmers to plant soil-anchoring trees and to refrain from plowing, grazing or planting non-perennial crops on land that was steeply sloped. The comeback of wild vegetation slowing water and soil loss was dramatic. These policies had, in turn, been informed by the strategies and positive feedbacks in the restoration of the Loess Plateau; the largest soil erosion-control project in the world (filmed throughout its 10-year first phase by John D. Liu). Gabrielle continued applying these lessons during her 10 years of anti-poverty work with low-income semi-literate farmers in Western China, using financial inclusion as a powerful learning and incentivizing platform. Anti-poverty work associated with water capture and soil rebuilding are still her major preoccupations. Erik van Lennep Writer and Teacher Erik van Lennep is a “practical ecologist” who writes about, teaches, and practices eco-design, ecosystem restoration, ecological forestry, and regenerative agriculture, often with one hand on his laptop keyboard while the other wields various planting tools. He currently produces a podcast series, Designers of Paradise, based on “kitchen table” style conversations with practitioners of Regenerative Agriculture, hoping to motivate his listeners to start planting as well. He has worked in community development, human rights, and environmental nonprofits much of his 45-year career and was instrumental in launching two global movements: protection of tropical rainforests and land rights for indigenous peoples. Other activities have included creation of an arts and ecology based after-school program for children ages 7–12, and “Cultivate,” the national sustainability training center for Ireland. Erik’s formal training includes an undergraduate degree in botany and a master’s degree in Ecosystem Restoration and Permaculture Design. |
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