Agrarian Landscapes in Transition - Comparisons of Long-Term Ecological & Cultural Change (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Long-Term Ecological Research Network
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	July 2008
Authors:	Charles Redman (Director, School of Sustainability) • David R. Foster (Directory of Harvard Forest)
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-536796-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant ecology Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods > Landscape gardening Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General Books > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods > Landscape gardening Promotions
LSN:	0-19-536796-0
Barcode:	9780195367966

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