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Nature Next Door – Cities and Trees in the American Northeast

Autor Ellen Stroud, William Cronon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2013
The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods. Cities, trees, mills, rivers, houses, and farms are all part of a single transformed regional landscape.
In an examination of the cities and forests of the northeastern United States-with particular attention to the woods of Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Vermont-Ellen Stroud shows how urbanization processes there fostered a period of recovery for forests, with cities not merely consumers of nature but creators as well. Interactions between city and hinterland in the twentieth century Northeast created a new wildness of metropolitan nature: a reforested landscape intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295993317
ISBN-10: 0295993316
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 169 x 208 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press

Recenzii

"With this intriguing book, environmental historian Stroud has fundamentally rewritten the recent forest history of the northeastern US. . . . Valuable for anyone interested in forestry, urban forestry, and land use or conservation. Highly recommended." -G. D. Dryer, Choice "The book illuminates the web of connections between forests and the quality of human life, and documents some of the ways in which people have strengthened those ties." -Publishers Weekly "The moral of Stroud's story has implications far beyond the American Northeast: the region has forests today because people made choices about them and then did the hard practical and political work of making those choices real. Such things do not happen by accident. They happen because people make them happen. That is as true today as it was a hundred years ago." --from the Foreword by William Cronon

Cuprins

Foreword | The Once and Future Forest / William Cronon
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Maps

Introduction | The City and the Trees
1. Water and Woods in Pennsylvania
2. New Hampshire Watersheds, Viewsheds, and Timber
3. Packaging the Forested Farm in Vermont
4. Who Owns Maine¿s Trees?
5. Fractured Forests and the Future of Northeastern Trees

Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index