Thomas Lyson

Under The Blade (eBook, ePUB)

The Conversion Of Agricultural Landscapes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the loss of farmland and rural lands and shows how interactions among different factors greatly complicate sustainable land management. Our current choices in the use of the land are among the most important factors shaping that future world, and this book demonstrates that the quality of that future is far from certain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429983016
• Artikelnr.: 56792768

Autorenporträt

Richard K. Olson is a researcher with the centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The editor of five other books addressing human impacts on envrionment, he is currently examining ways to relocalize agriculture and increase local food security. Thomas A. Lyson is a professor in the Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University. He also serves as director of the Farming Alternatives Program at Cornell, and as editor of Rural Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Farmland Loss in America
A Landscape Perspective on Farmland Conversion
The Law of the Land
The Economics of Farmland Conversion
Preserving Community Agriculture in a Global Economy
Ethics and Aesthetics in the Loss of Farmland
A National Policy for Farmland Preservation
Case Studies