Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation in the Appalachia and Non-Appalachia Parts of Alabama
Author: John Homer Blackstone
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 86
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Author: John Homer Blackstone
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alabama Development Office
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benita J. Howell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780252070228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the mountainous area from northern Alabama to West Virginia, this important volume explores the historic and contemporary interrelations between culture and environment in a region that has been plagued by land misuse and damaging stereotypes of its people. Committed to taking account of humankind's place in the environment, this collection is a timely contribution to debates over land use and conservation. Debunking the nature/culture dichotomy, contributors examine how physical space is transformed into culturally constituted "place" by a variety of factors, both tangible (architecture, landmarks, artifacts) and intangible (a sense of place, long-term family habitation of land, tradition, "a way of life worth fighting for"). Archaeologists, cultural geographers, and ethnographers examine how the land was used by its earliest inhabitants and trace the effects of agricultural decline, industrial development, and tourism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Powerful case studies recount past displacement of local populations in the name of progress or conservation and track threatened communities' struggles to maintain their claims to place in the face of extralocal counterclaims that would appropriate space and resources for other purposes, such as mountaintop removal of coal or a power company's plans to export electricity from Appalachia to distant urban centers. Contributors also record successful community planning ventures that have achieved creative solutions to seemingly intransigent conflicts between demands for economic wealth and environmental health.
Author: Patrick E. O'Neil
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Office of Appalachian Studies
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Office of Appalachian Studies
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alabama Development Office
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 88
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