Title Trees are shape shifters how cultivation, climate change, and disaster create landscapes Andrew S. Mathews

Published New Haven Yale University Press [2022]

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Description 1 online resource illustrations, maps Series Yale Agrarian Studies Yale agrarian studies. Contents 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 Summary In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in. -- publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Italy Plants -- Effect of global warming on -- Italy Geomorphology. Plant morphology. Landscape protection -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Tuscany Landscape protection -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Tuscany NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection Geomorphology Landscape protection -- Social aspects Nature -- Effect of human beings on Plant morphology Plants -- Effect of global warming on Italy Italy -- Tuscany Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300268843 030026884X

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