This study explores the hypothesis that a serious reduction in “landscape efficiency,” typified by significant landscape degradation, underlies the increase observed in external inputs and the corresponding loss of energy efficiency that the agrarian system has undergone over the last 150 years.
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
David Moon and Leona Skelton who carried out the Oral History project about the man-made environment of Kielder discuss some of their findings.
An anthology devoted to the United States’ earliest nature writing.
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.
Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines.
