Embedded Within Landscapes: Agrarian Philosophy and Sustainable Agriculture
Description:
Small-scale, conservation-based agrarianism provides a model for sustainable human habitation within heterogeneous landscapes. Thoreau's Transcendentalism and the historical roots of American Agrarianism are explored as influences for wilderness preservation and the New Agrarian movement. Idealizing a distant wilderness too often means overlooking the ecological and socio-economic environment where people live. Middle landscapes between nature and culture, or between wilderness and cities, can …
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Date:
August 2005
Creator:
Leonard, Evan
Partner:
UNT Libraries