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• Includes bibliographical references (p.207-218).
• Previously — Note on weights and measures — Seacoast: Ngai Tahu, Aotearoa (New Zealand) — Mountain: Huangshan, China — Desert coast: Murujuga (Burrup), Australia — Steppe: Tuva, Russia — Snow: Karelia, Finland — Swamp: Okavango, Botswana — Marsh-farm: East Anglia, England — Coast: Antrim Glens, Northern Ireland — Snow: Nitassinan, Labrador, Canada — Farm-city: Amish country, Ohio, United States — Swamp: Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, United States — Desert: Timbisha (Death Valley), California, United States — Coda: Dreaming of the day after — Notes — Bibliography — Acknowledgments.
• Overview: In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later. Jules Pretty’s travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California. The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.

Subjects:

• Nature — Effect of human beings on — Moral and ethical aspects.
• Human beings — Effect of environment on — Moral and ethical aspects.

Requested by Christiansen, L.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-390) and index.

Subjects:

• Rural geography.
• Rural geography — United States.
• Agricultural geography.
• Agricultural geography — United States.
• Landscape assessment.
• Landscape assessment — United States.
• United States — Geography.

Requested by Koehler, B.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-264) and index.
• Setting the scene : the nature of nature — Seventeenth-century environments : woodland and waste — Seventeenth-century environments : farmland — The social contexts of wildlife, c.1650-1750 — The industrial revolution — The revolution in agriculture — New roles for nature — Wildlife in depression, c.1870-1940 — New urban environments, c.1860-1950 — Conclusion : nature, history and conservation.
• While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens’ accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural scientists, in order to model the situation at various times and places in the more remote past. This timely volume encompasses both rural and urban environments from 1650 to the mid-twentieth century, drawing on a wide variety of social, historical and ecological sources. It examines the impact of social and economic organisation on the English landscape, biodiversity, the agricultural revolution, landed estates, the coming of large-scale industry and the growth of towns and suburbs. It also develops an original perspective on the complexity and ambiguity of man/animal relationships in this post-medieval period.

Subjects:

• Human ecology — England.
• Nature — Effect of human beings on — England — History.
• Landscape changes — England — History.
• Natural history — England — History.
• Landscapes — England — History.
• Ecology — England — History.
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration patterns and behavior, the potential outcomes are far more complex than the environmental refugee scenario suggests. This book provides a comprehensive review of how physical and human processes interact to shape migration, using simple diagrams and models to guide the researcher, policy maker, and advanced student through the climate-migration process. The book applies standard concepts and theories used in climate and migration scholarship to explain how events such as Hurricane Katrina, the Dust Bowl, African droughts, and floods in Bangladesh and China have triggered migrations that haven’t always fit the environmental refugee storyline. Lessons from past migrations are used to predict how future migration patterns will unfold in the face of sea level rise, food insecurity, and political instability, and to review options for policy makers — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-288) and index.
• 1. An introduction to the study of climate and migration — 2. Why people migrate — 3. Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climatic variability and change — 4. Extreme weather events and migration — 5. River valley flooding and migration — 6. Drought and its influence on migration — 7. Mean sea level rise and its implications for migration and migration policy — 8. Emergent issues in climate and migration research.

Subjects:

• Human beings — Effect of climate on.
• Climatic changes.
• Human beings — Migrations.
• Human geography.

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Part of the series Weyerhaeuser environmental books;Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-556) and index.
• Foreword : Environmental history comes of age / William Cronon — Land of Lincoln — Satan in the land : nature, the supernatural, and disorder in colonial New England — By the laws of nature and of nature’s God: Declaring American independence — King cotton: the cotton plant and southern slavery — Nature’s nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the improvement of America — The nature of Gettysburg: environmental history and the Civil War — Iron horses: nature and the building of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad — Atomic sublime: toward a natural history of the bomb — The road to Brown v. Board: an environmental history of the color line — It’s a gas: the United States and the oil shock of 1973-1974 — Paths that reckon.
• In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation’s past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light.
• Among the historical moments revisited here, a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of liberty. Abraham Lincoln, an unlettered citizen from the countryside, steers the Union through a moment of extreme peril, guided by his clear-eyed vision of nature’s capacity for improvement. In Topeka, Kansas, transformations of land and life prompt a lawsuit that culminates in the momentous civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education.
• By focusing on materials and processes intrinsic to all things and by highlighting the nature of the United States, Fiege recovers the forgotten and overlooked ground on which so much history has unfolded. In these pages, the nation’s birth and development, pain and sorrow, ideals and enduring promise come to life as never before, making a once-familiar past seem new. The Republic of Nature points to a startlingly different version of history that calls on readers to reconnect with fundamental forces that shaped the American experience. –pub. desc.

Subjects:

• Human ecology — United States — History.
• Nature — Effect of human beings on — United States — History.
• United States — Environmental conditions.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Regional identity and New England landscapes / Joseph A. Conforti — The Handselled globe / Kent C. Ryden — New England forests / LLoyd C. Irland — Women and the White mountains / Kimberly A. Jarvis — Traditional landscapes / Dale Potts — A vision routed in place / Sarah M. Gregg –Stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings / Mark B. Lapping — A bit of realistic fairy-land / David L. Richards — Landscapes of self-sufficiency / Dona Brown — All at last returns to the sea / Elizabeth Pillsbury — Rethinking conservation / Michael Rawson — Building a tourist landscape in a fragile ecosystem / John T. Cumbler — Bays and barrens and culture in cans / Robert Gee — New England’s legacy landscape / Joseph S. Wood — Water and Steam / Marti Frank — Preserving the illusion of being transported back into the past / James L. Lindgren — Wrought in the spirit of our ancestors / Scott C. Roper — Landscpe and class / Phil Birge-Liberman — The evolution of twentieth-century Boston’s metropolitan landscape / James C. O’Connell — The toxic assault on the New England landscape / Eric J. Krieg — Conclusion / Rachel W. Judd, Blake Harrison.
• This book takes a view of New England’s landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings report on the fragile ecology of tourist-friendly Cape Cod beaches and reveal the ethnic stereotypes informing Colonial Revivalism. Taken together, they offer a wide-ranging history of New England’s diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries. The book shows that all New England landscapes are the products of human agency as well as nature. The authors trace the roles that work, recreation, historic preservation, conservation, and environmentalism have played in shaping the region, and they highlight the diversity of historical actors who have transformed both its meaning and its physical form. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, environmental studies, literature, art history, and historic preservation, the book provides fresh perspectives on New England’s many landscapes: forests, mountains, farms, coasts, industrial areas, villages, towns, and cities. Illustrated, and with many archival photographs, it offers readers a solid historical foundation for understanding the great variety of places that make up New England.

Subjects:

• Landscape assessment — New England — History.
• Land use — New England — History.
• Landscape changes — New England — History.
• Human geography — New England — History.
• New England — Environmental conditions.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History — Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America — The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War — The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres — Nature’s Housekeepers : Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness — Reasserting Female Authority : Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II — Middle Class White Women in the Cold War — Women’s Alternative Environments : Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World — The Modern Environmental Justice Movement — Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century.

Subjects:

• Women and the environment — United States — History.
• Sex role — United States — History.
• Nature — Effect of human beings on — United States — History.
• Human ecology — United States — History.
• Conservation of natural resources — United States — History.
• Environmentalism — United States — History.
• United States — Environmental conditions — History.
• United States — Social conditions.

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