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.
Author(s): Andrew S. Mathews
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 320
City: New Haven
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
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
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