Mutel Cornelia F. Mutel

Tending Iowa's Land (eBook, ePUB)

Pathways to a Sustainable Future

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winnerIn the last 200 years, Iowa s prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa s land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change.In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state s human and wild residents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609388744
• Artikelnr.: 72473935

Autorenporträt

Cornelia F. Mutel is author of The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa (Iowa, 2008) and A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland (Iowa, 2016). She is the former senior science writer at IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. Mutel lives in Iowa City, Iowa.