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Trees Are Shape Shifters : How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes /
An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Sensing the Invisible: Plant Form and Landscape Transformation
- Interlude I. Plant Morphology Leads to Geomorphology
- Two. From Plant Morphologies to Landscape Structures
- Three. Fast and Slow Disasters: Plant Disease, Forest Fires, and Climate Change
- Interlude II. Pine Cultivation and Pine as an Agent of Landscape Transformation
- Four. Plant Morphology, Geomorphology, and Weather
- Five. Biogeomorphological Politics
- Six. From Landscape Histories to Climate Models
- Seven. From Climate Change to Biomass Energy
- Interlude III. Airscapes
- Eight. Landscapes and Energy Politics
- Epilogue. Trees Are Shape Shifters
- Appendix 1. Ecology and Climate of the Monte Pisano
- Appendix 2. Equations as Stories
- Appendix 3. List of Organizations
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index