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OverviewAgrarian 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles Redman (Director, School of Sustainability, Director, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University) , David R. Foster (Directory of Harvard Forest, Directory of Harvard Forest, Harvard University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.536kg ISBN: 9780195367966ISBN 10: 0195367960 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 17 July 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAuthors Biographical Notes Acknowledgements Charles L. Redman, Arizona State University (CAP LTER): Introduction 1: Kenneth M. Sylvester and Myron P. Gutmann, University of Michigan (Shortgrass Steppe LTER): Changing Agrarian Landscapes across America: A Comparative Perspective 2: David R. Foster, Brian Donahue, Dave Kittredge, Glenn Motzkin, Brian Hall, Billie Turner, and Elizabeth Chilton, Harvard University (Harvard Forest LTER): New England's Forest Landscape: Ecological Legacies and Conservation Patterns Shaped by Agrarian History 3: Ted L. Gragson, Paul V. Bolstad, and Meredith Welch Devine, University of Georgia (Coweeta LTER): Agrarian Transformation of Southern Appalachia 4: Kenneth M. Sylvester and Myron P. Gutmann, university of Michigan (Shortgrass Steppe LTER): Dustbowl Legacies: Long-Term Change and Resilience in the Shortgrass Steppe 5: Alan Rudy, Craig Harris, Brian Thomas, Michelle Worosz, Siena Kaplan, and Evann C. O'Donnell, Michigan State University (Kellog Biological Station): The Political Ecology of SW Michigan Agriculture, 1837-2000 6: Gerad Middendorf, Derrick Cline, and Leonard Bloomquist (deceased), Kansas State University (Konza Prairie LTER): Agrarian Landscape Transition in the Flint Hills of Kansas: Legacies and Resilience 7: Charles L. Redman and Ann P. Kinzig, Arizona State University (CAP LTER): Water Can Flow Uphill: A Narrative of Central Arizona Ted L. Gragson, University of Georgia (Coweeta LTER): ConclusionReviewsAuthor InformationCharles L. Redman is the director of the School of Sustainability, the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University, and co-director of the Central Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research site. David R. Foster is an ecologist and director of the Harvard Forest at Harvard University, where he is a faculty member in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and principal investigator for the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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