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Titolo: | Agrarian landscapes in transition : comparisons of long-term ecological and cultural change / / edited by Charles L. Redman, David R. Foster |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press |
[Albuquerque, NM], : LTER, 2008 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Disciplina: | 333.76 |
Soggetto topico: | Agricultural ecology - United States |
Land use - United States | |
Altri autori: | RedmanCharles L FosterDavid R. <1954-> |
Note generali: | Formerly CIP. |
Previously issued in print: 2008. | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Changing agrarian landscapes across America : a comparative perspective / Kenneth M. Sylvester and Myron P. Gutmann -- New England's forest landscape : ecological legacies and conservation patterns shaped by agrarian history / David R. Foster [and others] -- Agricultural transformation of southern Appalachia / Ted L. Gragson, Paul V. Bolstad, and Meredith Welch-Devine -- Dustbowl legacies : long-term change and resilience in the shortgrass steppe / Kenneth M. Sylvester and Myron P. Gutmann -- The political ecology of southwest Michigan agriculture, 1837-2000 / Alan P. Rudy [and others] -- Agrarian landscape transition in the Flint Hills of Kansas : legacies and resilience / Gerad Middendorf, Derrick Cline, and Leonard Bloomquist -- Water can flow uphill : a narrative of central Arizona / Charles L. Redman and Ann P. Kinzig. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This work 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 and the human responses to these changes. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Agrarian landscapes in transition |
ISBN: | 0-19-045129-7 |
0-19-770014-4 | |
1-281-52941-9 | |
9786611529413 | |
0-19-970984-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824743603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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