Tending Iowa's Land

Pathways to a Sustainable Future

Cornelia F. Mutel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2022
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-873-7 (ISBN)

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In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to Iowa’s land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.

In the last 200 years, Iowa’s prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa’s land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change.

In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.

Cornelia F. Mutel is author of The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa (Iowa, 2008) and A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland (Iowa, 2016). She is the former senior science writer at IIHR–Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. Mutel lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Bur Oak Book
Verlagsort	Iowa
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-60938-873-9 / 1609388739
ISBN-13	978-1-60938-873-7 / 9781609388737
Zustand	Neuware