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American Farmland Trust
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C. Schlough
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Charles Francis
Charles Schlough
Community Supported Agriculture
conservation
Conservation Easements
Conservation Reserve Program
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Ethan Parke
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Farmland Conservation
Farmland Conversion
Farmland Loss
Farmland Preservation Programs
Farmland Protection
Farmland Protection Policies
Farmland Protection Program
Fauquier County
Gary Grant
Greg Kirkpatrick
Helle Margrete Meltzer
John P. Reganold
K. Olson Richard
Kate Smith
Lancaster County
land use planning
landscape ecology
Large Lot Zoning
Lauren Ross and Jeanine Sih
Lawrence W. Libby
Lee G. Robert
Linda R. Klein
loss
Low Density Residential Development
Margaret Stewart Maizel
Michael Pressman
Michal C. Moore
Minimum Parcel Size
National Agricultural Lands Study
Oxnard Plain
Patrick A. Stewart
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PDR Program
Permanent Conservation Easement
preservation
Prime Agricultural Land
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Rasa Dale
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Richard K. Sutton
rural land fragmentation
Steward W. Cecil
Susan Jo Gehl
sustainable land management
Sweet Corn
T.A. Lyson
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Tompkins County
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- ISBN 9780367313753
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1998, the last farm in Des Plaines, Illinois was subdivided. Seven acres along the Niobrara River in north-central Nebraska sold for 5700 per acre, twenty times the price for agricultural use. Waukesha County, Wisconsin, although still largely in agriculture, has been almost entirely zoned for small lot subdivisions. Nationwide, the cumulative effect of thousands of individual land use decisions is an orgiastic devouring of the countryside that consumes at least 1.4 million acres of rural land each year, and fragments a much larger area. The effects on landscape functions include loss of agricultural production, water pollution, increases in local runoff and flooding, loss of habitat and biodiversity, and the loss of natural beauty. In exchange we get malls, retail strips, and an ugly sprawl that degrades people and community. How have we come to this, and more importantly, how might we find a better, sustainable approach to the use of land? Land use decisions are the result of complex interactions among law, economics, landscape characteristics, population growth, social and political forces, ethics, and aesthetics. Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes examines the loss of farmland and other rural lands from each of these perspectives, and shows how interactions among different factors greatly complicate sustainable land management. Included throughout the seven main chapters of the book are descriptions of some of the tools and strategies that can be used to preserve farmland and guide development. The application of these tools is illustrated by 22 case studies of towns and regions throughout the United States, each with a somewhat different challenge, response, and degree of success (or failure).Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Protestant theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945, stated that ?the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.? Our current choices in the use of the land are among the most important factors shaping that future world, and Under the Blade demonstrates that the quality of that future is far from certain.
Richard K. Olson is a researcher with the centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The editor of five other books addressing human impacts on envrionment, he is currently examining ways to relocalize agriculture and increase local food security. Thomas A. Lyson is a professor in the Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University. He also serves as director of the Farming Alternatives Program at Cornell, and as editor of Rural Sociology.
