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Agrarian Landscapes in Transition
Comparisons of Long-Term Ecological & Cultural Change
Charles Redman and David R. Foster
296 pages
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54 halftones, 6 line illustrations
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234x156mm
978-0-19-536796-6
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Hardback
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17 July 2008
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- Brian Donahue
- David Kittredge
- Glenn Motzkin
- Brian Hall
- B. L. Turner II
- Elizabeth S. Chilton
- Ted L Gragson
- Paul V. Bolstad
- Meredith Welch Devine
- Kenneth Sylvester
- Myron Gutmann
- Alan P. Rudy, Craig K. Harris, Brian J. Thomas, Michelle R. Worosz, Siena S. K. Kaplan, and Evann C. O'Donnell
- Gerad Middendorf
- Derrick Cline
- Leonard Bloomquist
- Ann Kinzig
- Selling point: * Shows how human activity has changed and continues to change the face of the earth * This is the first time in history that we have been far enough along to actually be able to look back over the history of agricultural land-use and abandonment by non-native peoples
Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's environment for several thousand years. What happens when humans impose their spatial and temporal signatures on ecological regimes, and how does this manipulation affect
the earth and nature's desire for equilibrium?
Studies were conducted at six Long Term Ecological Research sites within the US, including New England, the Appalachian Mountains, Colorado, Michigan, Kansas, and Arizona. While each site has its own unique agricultural history, patterns emerge that help make sense of how our actions have affected the earth, and how the earth pushes back. The book addresses how human activities influence the spatial and temporal structures of agrarian landscapes, and how this varies over time and across biogeographic regions. It also looks at the ecological and environmental consequences of the resulting structural changes, the human responses to these changes, and how these responses drive further changes in agrarian landscapes.
The time frames studied include the ecology of the earth before human interaction, pre-European human interaction during the rise and fall of agricultural land use, and finally the biological and cultural response to the abandonment of farming, due to complete abandonment or a land-use change such as urbanization.Readership: Theoreticians as well as policy makers and land managers including landscape ecologists, resource economists, ecological and agricultural economists, conservation biologists, geographers, land-use and urban planners, as well as some US and environmental historians, sociologists and anthropologists.
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Charles Redman, Director, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, and David R. Foster, Directory of Harvard Forest, Harvard University
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Authors Biographical Notes
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Charles L. Redman, Arizona State University (CAP LTER)
Chapter 1: Changing Agrarian Landscapes across America: A Comparative Perspective - Kenneth M. Sylvester and Myron P. Gutmann, University of Michigan (Shortgrass Steppe LTER)
Chapter 2: New Englands Forest Landscape: Ecological Legacies and Conservation Patterns Shaped by Agrarian History - David R. Foster, Brian Donahue, Dave Kittredge, Glenn Motzkin, Brian Hall, Billie Turner, and Elizabeth Chilton, Harvard University (Harvard Forest LTER)
Chapter 3: Agrarian Transformation of Southern Appalachia - Ted L. Gragson, Paul V. Bolstad, and Meredith Welch Devine, University of Georgia (Coweeta LTER)
Chapter 4: Dustbowl Legacies: Long-Term Change and Resilience in the Shortgrass Steppe - Kenneth M. Sylvester and Myron P. Gutmann, University of Michigan (Shortgrass Steppe LTER)
Chapter 5: The Political Ecology of SW Michigan Agriculture, 1837-2000 - Alan Rudy, Craig Harris, Brian Thomas, Michelle Worosz, Siena Kaplan, and Evann C. O'Donnell Michigan State University (Kellog Bioligical Station)
Chapter 6: Agrarian Landscape Transition in the Flint Hills of Kansas: Legacies and Resilience - Gerad Middendorf, Derrick Cline, and Leonard Bloomquist (deceased), Kansas State University (Konza Prairie LTER)
Chapter 7: Water Can Flow Uphill: A Narrative of Central Arizona - Charles L. Redman and Ann P. Kinzig, Arizona State University (CAP LTER)
Conclusion - Ted L. Gragson, University of Georgia (Coweeta LTER)
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