Trees Are Shape Shifters : How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes

Name: Trees Are Shape Shifters : How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes
Brand: Yale University Press

Yale University Press

Trees Are Shape ShiftersHow Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes\nAuthor(s): Andrew S. Mathews\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300260373, 978-0300260373\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a wa.