Trees Are Shape Shifters

An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivationIn 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 way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger-scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew S. Mathews, Mathews Andrew S.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2023
• EAN: 9780300260373
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26037-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Protection, Nature, European History, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, NATURE / Plants / Trees, Italy, Conservation of the environment, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Environmental Conservation &