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Barnyards And Birkenstocks
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Author : Don Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-24
Barnyards And Birkenstocks written by Don Stuart and has been published by Washington State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-24 with Political Science categories.
Rural America is struggling. The average farmer is now 57 years old. Family agriculture is gradually fading, and prime farmland is often converted into environmentally harmful applications. But food cultivation has ecological consequences, too. Farms consume 80 percent of the nation’s water. Although they often prevent sprawling development, improve water quality, or provide wildlife habitat, they also pollute rivers, drain wetlands, or emit destructive greenhouse gasses. Don Stuart believes two dangerous trends--the loss of farms and damage to ecosystems--are connected, and that a major cause is the political deadlock between farmers and environmental activists. He offers a radical proposal: collaboration. To promote empathy and point out the costs of continued political impasse, he presents opposing perspectives. Topics include incentives, regulations, government spending, environmental markets, growth management, climate change, public lands grazing, and the federal farm bill. Drawing from multiple case studies and a lifetime spent settling conflicts, the author identifies characteristics of successful community programs to suggest a model for a prosperous, healthy future.
Barnyards And Birkenstocks
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Author : Donald D. Stuart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Barnyards And Birkenstocks written by Donald D. Stuart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.
Rural America is struggling. The average farmer is now 57 years old. Family agriculture is gradually fading, leading to declines in related industries. Food sources¿increasingly anonymous, industrial, and international¿are also less secure. Despite these concerns, many communities regularly convert prime farmland to environmentally harmful applications. Yet food cultivation, too, has profound ecological consequences. Working agriculture occupies fully half of the total U.S. land base, and farms consume eighty percent of the nation¿s water. Although they often prevent sprawling development, improve water quality, or provide wildlife habitat, they also pollute rivers, drain wetlands, or emit destructive greenhouse gasses. Don Stuart believes these two dangerous trends¿the loss of farms and damage to ecosystems¿are connected, and that a major cause is the political deadlock between farmers and environmental activists. Instead of achieving a reasonable balance, this stalemate stalls funding for incentive programs and prevents progress toward essential regulations. Stuart offers a radical proposal: collaboration would advance the economic needs of one group while furthering the conservation efforts of the other. With a goal of promoting understanding, he presents opposing perspectives on topics such as incentives, regulations, government spending, environmental markets, growth management, climate change, public lands grazing, and the Federal Farm Bill. He points out costs of continued political impasse. Finally, drawing from a lifetime spent settling conflicts, he identifies characteristics of successful community programs to suggest a model for a prosperous, healthy future.
No Farms No Food
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Author : Don Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2022-04-14
No Farms No Food written by Don Stuart and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-14 with Political Science categories.
America’s farms are key to the preservation of vital ecosystems and a stable climate. Yet farmers and environmentalists have not always seen eye-to-eye about the best ways to manage agricultural landscapes. Since 1980, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been bringing people together to work for healthy land and a healthy food system. No Farms, No Food traces the development of this powerful coalition responsible for landmark achievements in farmland preservation and conservation practices. It all began with Peggy Rockefeller’s determination to stop the inexorable urban sprawl that was threatening the nation’s agriculture. From this humble start grew a small but astute organization, and more importantly, a formidable constituency of farmers and environmentalists united around a common cause. With leadership from AFT, that constituency drove through Congress the first “Conservation Title” in the history of the U.S. Farm Bill; oversaw the development of agriculture conservation easement programs throughout the country; and continues to develop innovative approaches to sustainable agriculture. No Farms, No Food takes readers inside the political and policy battles that determine the fate of our nation’s farmland. And it illustrates the tactics needed to unify fractured interest groups for the common good. No Farms, No Food is both an inspiring history of agricultural conservation and a practical guide to creating an effective advocacy organization. This is an essential read for everyone who cares about the future of our food, farms, and environment.
Environment Space Place Volume 8 Issue 1 Spring 2016
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Author : C. Patrick Heidkamp; Troy Paddock; Christine Petto
language : en
Publisher: Zeta Books
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Environment Space Place Volume 8 Issue 1 Spring 2016 written by C. Patrick Heidkamp; Troy Paddock; Christine Petto and has been published by Zeta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
CONTENTS Victor COUNTED: Making Sense of Place Attachment: Towards a Holistic Understanding of People-Place Relationships and Experiences ABSTRACT: The article is an attempt to make sense of the different interdisciplinary perspectives associated with people’s attachment to places with a view to construct a holistic template for understanding peopleplace relationships and experiences. We took note of the theoretical contributionsof Jorgensen & Stedman (2001), Scannell & Giff ord (2010), and Seamon (2012, 2014) to construct an integrative framework for understanding emotional links to places and people’s perception and experience of places. This was done with the intention of illuminating on the meaning of place and the diff erent “places” people get attached to. The paper concludes by incorporating different place frameworks with the intention of establishing a holistic model for understanding the different attributes and perceptions of people-place relationships and experiences. Roger PADEN: Landscapes and Evolutionary Aesthetics ABSTRACT: This essay examines the possibility of developing a more complete evolutionary aesthetics that can be used to appraise both natural landscapes and works of landscape architects. For the purpose of thisessay, an “evolutionary aesthetics” is an aesthetic theory that is closely connected to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Two types of Darwinian evolutionary aesthetics seem possible; a theory of evolved tastes, such as that developed by Dennis Dutton, and an aesthetics of evolving nature based on Carlson’s positive aesthetics. After, exploring both theories, I argue that, while the two positions approach aesthetics from diff erent directions, they support similar aesthetic judgments concerning landscapes, and this suggests that the two positions might be incorporated into a broader theory of evolutionary aesthetics. Th at theory is briefl y outlined and applied to both natural landscapes and parks. Jeffrey B. WEBB: Watershed Redesign in the Upper Wabash River Drainage Area, 1870-1970 ABSTRACT: The Huntington, Salamonie, and Mississinewa reservoirs in northern Indiana control seasonal flooding in the Upper Wabash River drainage area. They appeared in the 1960s after a long period of study and planning in response to large-scale fl ooding in central and southern Indiana in the fi rst half of the twentieth century. Th eir construction disrupted the pattern of human ecology along the Wabash and its tributaries for many of the watershed’s inhabitants. Supporters touted the projects’ economic and recreational benefi ts, while opponents experienced the change as a desecration of sacred space. Th e projects saved millions in property damage and perhaps many human lives, but at the cost of an enduring sense of place amid the advent of a new regime of scientific watershed management and state control over natural resources in the region. Winnie L. M. YEE: Fashion, Affect, and Poetry in a Global City ABSTRACT: Everyday life is a central theme of Hong Kong poetry. Many Hong Kong poets use the quotidian as a starting point for the exploration of history and alternative imaginings. Th is mundane focus, unlike the colonial dreamscape of Hong Kong as an economic miracle, allows writers to refl ect upon Hong Kong as a post-colonial and global space. Th e Hong Kong writer Natalia Chan examines the complex nature of everyday life within the space of the global and post-colonial city. Chan’s poems deal with the essence of everydayness and use commodities to conjure up the vivacity of the urbanscape of Hong Kong. Unlike the political and economic discourse that is usually used to define Hong Kong, Chan’s work portrays Hong Kong as a city that off ers the possibility of daily re-creation against the background of history. In this article, we will examine Chan’s use of the circulation of commodities in the global world and explore the way fashion becomes a point where high and popular culture, private and public domains, and local and global interests clash, negotiate, and fertilize each other. Chan’s works do not conform to the economic and prosperity discourse that has repressed Hong Kong; rather, she guides her readers to re-experience the everydayness of routines, to celebrate alternate ways of understanding the urbanscape, and to open themselves to the potentialities of art and the everyday. Emmanuel YEWAH: African Documentaries, Films, Texts, and Environmental Issues ABSTRACT: This study draws from theoretical environmental debates as well as a selection of fi lms, documentaries, and texts to discuss Africans’ approaches to environmental and ecological problems. Furthermore, it highlights the various strategies that Africans have developed in their attempts to provide holistic and much more comprehensive responses to environmental challenges. Informed by African indigenous knowledge, those strategies do involve community-based micro-level initiatives, grassroots organizations, ancestral spirits, and use local languages or lingua franca to educate as well as prod the people’s consciousness about environmental and ecological issues. REVIEWS Lorna Lueker ZUKAS: Forgotten World. Directed by Terri Ella Derek SHANAHAN: The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes. By Patrick Keiller.
Final Adjournment
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Author : Don Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Release Date : 2017-11-05
Final Adjournment written by Don Stuart and has been published by Epicenter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-05 with Fiction categories.
The scenic campus of the Washington state capitol is outwardly calm, but the Legislature is in session and no one better understands the turmoil that swirls beneath the surface than professional lobbyist Sandy Dalton. In the middle of a busy day, a powerful senator is found dead in his office with an antique Native American hunting knife in his chest. Sandy becomes the prime suspect in the case, having had an argument with the senator the morning of the murder and been the last to see him alive, but he isn't the only one to have disagreed with the senator's policies. The resulting tectonic shift in the political landscape turns the legislative world upside down. As motives, conflicting testimonies, and hints of behind-the-scenes blackmailing add up, Sandy embarks on a struggle to clear his name. It seems almost everyone in Olympia politics has a stake and almost anyone could be the killer.
The Spirit Of The Soil
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Author : Paul B. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-05-25
The Spirit Of The Soil written by Paul B. Thompson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Philosophy categories.
In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B. Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture. Productionists have sought increasing yields—to make two seeds grow where only one grew before—while traditional visions of good farming have stressed stewardship. These traditional visions have been challenged by two more worldviews: a call for a total cost accounting for farming and an advocacy for a holistic perspective. Thompson argues that an environmentally defensible systems approach must draw upon all four worldviews, recognizing their flaws and synthesizing their strengths in a new vision of sustainable agriculture. This classic 1995 study has been thoroughly revised and significantly expanded in its second edition with up-to-date examples of agriculture’s impact on the environment. These include extensive discussions of new pesticides and the effects of animal agriculture on climate and other areas of the environment. In addition, a new final chapter discusses sustainability, which has become a dominant idea within environmental studies and agrarian political philosophy.
The Routledge Handbook Of Sustainable Cities And Landscapes In The Pacific Rim
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Author : Yizhao Yang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-17
The Routledge Handbook Of Sustainable Cities And Landscapes In The Pacific Rim written by Yizhao Yang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with Architecture categories.
This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection between cities and surrounding landscapes, across different boundaries and scales; the persistence of environmental and development inequities; and the growing impacts of global climate change, including how physical conditions and social implications are being anticipated and addressed. Building upon localized knowledge and contextualized experiences, this edited collection brings attention to place-based approaches across the Pacific Rim and makes an important contribution to the scholarly and practical understanding of sustainable urban development models that have mostly emerged out of the Western experiences. Nine sections, each grounded in research, dialogue, and collaboration with practical examples and analysis, focus on a theme or dimension that carries critical impacts on a holistic vision of city-landscape development, such as resilient communities, ecosystem services and biodiversity, energy, water, health, and planning and engagement. This international edited collection will appeal to academics and students engaged in research involving landscape architecture, architecture, planning, public policy, law, urban studies, geography, environmental science, and area studies. It also informs policy makers, professionals, and advocates of actionable knowledge and adoptable ideas by connecting those issues with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The collection of writings presented in this book speaks to multiyear collaboration of scholars through the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Program and its global network, facilitated by SCL Annual Conferences and involving more than 100 contributors from more than 30 institutions. The Open Access version of chapters 1, 2, 4, 11, 17, 23, 30, 37, 42, 49, and 56 of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003033530, have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Sustainability Science
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Author : Ariane König
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Sustainability Science written by Ariane König and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Business & Economics categories.
Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science. Each chapter takes a critical and reflective stance on a key issue or method of sustainability science. Contributing authors offer perspectives from diverse disciplines, including physics, philosophy of science, agronomy, geography, and the learning sciences. This book equips readers with a better understanding of how one might actively design, engage in, and guide collaborative processes for transforming human-environment-technology interactions, whilst embracing complexity, contingency, uncertainties, and contradictions emerging from diverse values and world views. Each reader of this book will thus have guidance on how to create and/or engage in similar initiatives or courses in their own context. Sustainability Science: Key Issues is the ideal book for students and researchers engaged in problem and project based learning in sustainability science.
Outside Looking In
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Author : Nicholas P. Lovrich
language : en
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Outside Looking In written by Nicholas P. Lovrich and has been published by Washington State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Political Science categories.
The recent advent of gridlock and hyper-partisanship in the United States Congress has raised questions about whether similar divides are occurring in state governments, and if so, why? To find out, researchers--working in 2018 and 2019 under a National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD) grant--conducted a survey of registered lobbyists and public agency legislative liaison officers in all fifty states. They received over 1,200 completed surveys. The researchers hope that understanding reasons behind politicians’ inability to demonstrate civility and reach bipartisan agreements will yield effective, purposeful interventions. In Outside Looking In, scholars from across the country interpret the survey results. Using a variety of lenses, they present unique perspectives, revealing both regional and national insights. Chapters address findings on a variety of topics, including effects of political culture heritage on perceptions of civil discourse phenomena and the impact of legislative professionalization; sentiments about civil discourse and perceptions of their own state legislature among lobbyists; a multivariate cross-state comparison of the relative impact of political culture, professionalism, and term limits; presumed and actual impact of term limits on civility; a comparison of lobbyists with and without prior legislative service; and effects of the rural/urban divide and state-level inequality across the states. Also discussed are the efforts by the National Conference of State Legislatures to advance the cause of civil discourse, and NICD interventions to support civil discourse in state legislatures. Offering rare insights on discourse in state legislatures, this work is a must-read for political science scholars studying state governments, state-level lobbying, and civility in government, as well as for state legislators and public interest groups committed to enhancing civility in government.
My Elegant Barnyard
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Author : Kacy Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2001-07-24
My Elegant Barnyard written by Kacy Curtis and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-24 with Fiction categories.
My Elegant Barnyard tells the tale of Bernard Steele, a restless twenty one year old, who, despite being in love with life, cannot help but notice a disenchantment growing within himself. The world he beholds around him is one of superficial, shallow commercialism, and it appalls him, because it conflicts with the America he grew up believing in, an image which he still carries with him, refusing to relinquish. Having grown up on a farm in a small town in Oregon, Bernard was raised to believe that integrity and masculinity were virtues, that with a strong back and good work ethic, a man could make something of himself. His childhood is shrouded in memories of fourth of July parades and picnics, of high school football games and lazy drives through the mountains above his town. His adolescence was filled with freedom and idealism, with faith in God, his neighbors, and in his country. However, times have changed, and Bernard now finds himself in a time when its no longer cool to believe in America. Bernard realizes that his generation is something that he wants nothing to do with. All around him he sees turtleneck wearing pseudo-intellectuals and cyber space cafes. He sees cell phones and portable pocket internets, and it all seems so strange and wrong to him. The thought of becoming one of them frightens him, and he vows to pursue another way. This theme, of Bernard searching for his America, sets the stage for the entire book, and yet it is only one of the many themes which pervade the novel. Another dilemma which haunts Bernard throughout the course of the book is his quest to discover himself. Bernard, being twenty one years old, finds himself in that awkward stage where he is no longer a boy and yet is not ready to become an adult. Desire and morality battle each other inside his heart as he strives to unearth the man inside himself. Beneath all of this, there is also the tale of the young mans relentless quest to make it as a writer. Having turned his back on college and institutionalized learning, Bernard now faces the fear of becoming common, of slipping into a minimum wage lethargy and disappearing forever. Determined to make his voice heard, longing to carve out an identity in the seemingly indifferent world, Bernard embarks upon the daunting task of writing the great American novel. And yet there is more. There is also an adventurous side to Bernard, a hungry, lusting, wild side, that is not only willing to try everything on his search for enlightenment, but is insistent upon it. Bernard shamelessly pulls the reader into his world of sexual encounters, drug experimentation, and overall web of debauchery, but he does so in such an innocent, honest, straightforward fashion, that the reader can not help but feel compassion for him, even if his actions are sometimes disgraceful. Through out his adventures, Bernard wanders searchingly through some dark and unpleasant territory, but this only adds depth to his character, and thereby makes him more real, more likable. All of these themes, as crucial as they are to the book, are only underlying plots which supply a foundation for the surface story to unfold. On the exterior My Elegant Barnyard is an adventure story, a tale of a young man traveling from Maui to his small home town in Oregon. Bernard flies, wanders, and hitch-hikes his way home, leading the reader from seedy bars in L.A to the cabs of strange and lonely truck drivers. From the broken down diners along the highways of California to the forests of the Pacific northwest. Through Bernards eyes, the reader comes to view an America which is seldom seen these days. An America of vast beauty and wild terrain, of rolling hills and endless freeways, of truck-stops at dawn and psychedelic topless bars. Will Bernard make it home to Oregon, and what awaits him there if he does? Will he discover the path to manhood, or will his own identity always remain a mystery to him? Will he receive enlig