Product Description: This book examines the factors affecting the demand for agricultural land in the United States and the costs of meeting increasing demand. Originally published in 1982

Product Description: It is the largest landholder in America, overseeing nearly an eighth of the country: 258 million acres located almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River, with even twice as much below the surface. Its domain embraces wildlife and wilderness, timber, range, and minerals, and for over 60 years, the Bureau of Land Management has been an agency in search of a mission...read more

Product Description: As cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates, more and more people are looking for peaceful, weekend retreats in mountain or rural communities. More often than not, these retreats are found in and around resorts or places of natural beauty...read more

Product Description: Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's environment for several thousand years...read more

Product Description: Reclaiming the Land brings together original investigations of the new generation of rural social movements in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers of diverse political and ideological orientation have used land occupations and other tactics systematically to confront the neoliberal state...read more

Product Description: From Canvey Island to Jaywick Sands, from Peacehaven to Pitsea; in the first 40 years of last century, thousands of English families made their own place in the sun, without benefit of councils, planners, architects, building societies, or even builders...read more

Housebuilding in Britain's Countryside examines the controversial issue of whether looser planning controls are necessary in order to provide affordable housing or whether we should protect the countryside from urban encroachment. The book also examines the effect of government policies on this issue and the reshaping of the rural economy and character. Mark Shucksmith, an acknowledged authority on rural housing, addresses both sides of the debate in depth. He starts by outlining the policies which have shaped the issue and presents a framework from which to approach the subject. He then examines, from an analytical perspective, the conflict of objectives underlying countryside policy. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive discussion of rural housing available, and will be relevant reading for researchers and teachers in geography, planning and land management, agriculture, sociology, and housing studies, as well as for policy makers and professionals.

Product Description: In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West...read more

Product Description: The ties that bind Central Asia to the Middle East have increased dramatically in recent years, as political emancipation from Soviet rule has spurred the restoration of material culture shared by Turkic and Iranian peoples. Political institutions and farming practices, however, are still based on the Soviet model, with centralized large-scale agricultural production serving Russian rather than local needs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Argues that the mythology of the cowboy should be replaced by new icons reflecting the realities of the modern West, including water shortages, overgrazing, and the need to protect western wildlife and wilderness. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is a lively account of a community working to combat suburban sprawl, to protect a large part of the landscape as common land, and to enjoy the land productively in an ecologically sustainable way. Based on the practical experience of one New England town, the book urges suburban environmentalists to go beyond preserving open space to actively engaging people with the places where they live...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to an emerging market economy in just a few years. It focuses on how household capital (household labour, social networks and comunity attachment) effect the economic and psychological adaptation of households to rapid socioeconomic change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Unless action is taken, the developing world will face recurrent problems of food security and conflict. This volume provides a summary and perspective of the field of land resources and suggests improvements needed to conserve resources for future generations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: No one today thinks of Brooklyn, New York, as an agricultural center. Yet Kings County enjoyed over two centuries of farming prosperity. Even as late as 1880 it was one of the nation's leading vegetable producers, second only to neighboring Queens County...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exceptionally important, one-of-a-kind research report and analysis of fundamental aspects and regional issues concerning the development of European rural areas, especially the rapid changes taking place in European agriculture. The book contains fourteen chapters covering land-use and general environmental problems in Portugal, France, UK, Estonia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, including a chapter on changes in natural landscapes and land use following the Chernolbyl accident...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Concern about groundwater contamination has focused attention on the processes that influence chemical fate in soil water systems. Independent of the mode of introduction of the chemicals, a major concern with respect to groundwater contamination is the passage of these chemicals through the unsatured zone and the relatively thin cover layers overlaying aquifers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The storage of hazardous, chemical, and nuclear wastes is one of the most intractable problems facing the United States. Based on the most comprehensive, multi-site, and multi-dimensional study completed to date on waste-facility siting and management in rural areas in the U...read more

Product Description: Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes examines the patterns, causes, and consequences of current land use decisions in the United States, particularly the conversion of farmland to housing, roads, and other development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a case study of changing land-use patterns in Brittany over nearly 2000 years. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity. But as cities grow and industries expand, are acequias, or community irrigation ditches, a wise and efficient use of water in the arid Southwest? Jose Rivera presents the contemporary case for the value of acequias and the communities they nurture in the river valleys of southern Colorado and New Mexico...read more

Product Description: Land, Power, and Poverty explores the development of the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society, the challenge in recent decades to those structures by a restive peasantry, and the role in these conflicts of five governments of the region—Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua...read more

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Product Description: During the next twenty to twenty-five years, the global human population will most likely exceed eight billion. Whether the earth's resources can support this unprecedented population increase remains an open question. The papers collected here examine one facet of this question by assessing the production potential of available land in relation to the predicted demand for food...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A new edition of the book that received the Historic Preservation Book Prize and the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor AwardSince publication of the first edition of Saving America's Countryside in 1989, the fight to save America's rural resources has met with much success...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)