The Gift of Good Land
The Gift of Good Land

Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1640091696

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The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.

Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Meeting the Expectations of the Land

Author: Wes Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780865471726

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A collection of essays examines agricultural techniques designed to meet the needs of the people without depleting the land

Essays on Land Use and Agriculture
Essays on Land Use and Agriculture

Author: Charles Taylor

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This dissertation explores policy-relevant questions related to climate change, agriculture, land use, and water from an environmental economics perspective. The first chapter investigates the impact of pesticides on human health and welfare using using cicada emergence as a ecologically-driven natural experiment. The second analyzes the relationship between irrigation and climate change, showing how adaptive measures can create negative externalities. The third chapter provides an estimate of the value of wetlands for flood mitigation, an important topic in relation to the Clean Water Act. Overall, these chapters explore both how humans affect the land and the reverse feedback of how land use decisions affect human welfare.

Forest Conservation and Agriculture
Forest Conservation and Agriculture

Author: Fanny Moffette

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This dissertation is composed of three essays relating agriculture and deforestation issues, in the broad field of development economics. All essays are motivated by the analysis of how policy incentives affect behavior of agricultural producers and influence deforestation in developing countries. This analysis is conducted in the context of two modern types of environmental policies. First, payments for environmental services (PES) are a contract-based mechanism that pays landowners to preserve forests. Second, zero-deforestation commitments are an environmental supply-chain policy often made as a response to threats to brand reputation. The impacts of those two policies and their interactions with agriculture are still not well understood. I examine how these policies might go awry, either because they are undermined by other policies, or through leakage and laundering that occur as a result of the environmental policy itself. The next paragraphs present the motivation, objectives, findings, and main contributions of each of the chapters in this dissertation.

Agriculture and the Land
Agriculture and the Land

Author: Rebecca Welshman

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1474440908

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Agriculture and the Land brings together previously uncollected essays on the changing conditions of agriculture and rural life in the 1870s and 1880s. These items, many of which are unknown to researchers, were first published in leading periodicals of the time and offer new insight into the trajectory and timeframe of Jefferies' career. The material offers fresh perspectives on the economics and politics of agriculture, the condition of the agricultural labourer, the use of steam power, the land question, education and changing farming practices.

A Continuous Harmony
A Continuous Harmony

Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2012-04-12

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1619020807

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"This book is broad and leisurely and important. Something like the river itself on which Wendell Berry lives. It is full of wide and flowing thoughts and one thing leads to another in the manner that nature intended―or used to. The language ranges from the grave and beautiful to the sharp and specific, depending on the need to express the vast variety of subjects he presents."—The Nation The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. ""It seemed to me,"" Horenbein wrote, ""that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants."" Wendell Berry's second collection of essays, A Continuous Harmony was first published in 1972, and includes the seminal ""Think Little,"" which was printed in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue and reprinted around the globe, and the splendid centerpiece, ""Discipline and Hope,"" an insightful and articulate essay making a case for what he calls ""a new middle."