Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability
Climate change. Habitat loss. Soil erosion. Groundwater depletion. Toxins in our food. Inhumane treatment of farm animals. Increasing farm worker exploitation. Hunger and malnutrition in the midst of plenty. What will it take for farmers in the United States to embrace sustainable practices?
A captivating story of environmental crisis and community on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Island environments are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of rapidly rising waters, accelerating ecological crisis. While we often think of this environmental reality in terms of the Global North and South, Alaska, or Micronesian or Indian ......
Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions In the face of numerous challenges, small-scale farming for local markets requires enormous courage and optimism. The decision to become a farmer often arises from a profound desire to uphold certain ......
Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions In the face of numerous challenges, small-scale farming for local markets requires enormous courage and optimism. The decision to become a farmer often arises from a profound desire to uphold certain ......
In Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities. Drawing international comparisons with a case study centering on the Pocahontas Coalfield, Cook Marshall documents that rural places are often systems among systems ......
Johnston explains how the media constructs the natural and bodily experience canoers and kayakers say they have while attending an annual floating event that occurs on the Mississippi River, contending that social meaning is essential for humans to make sense of their surroundings.
Using case study research, framed by urbanormativity theory, this book tells the auto-ethnographic, recent history of rural schools in upstate New York.
Country Teachers in City Schools provides insight into the experiences of rural out-migrant teachers teaching in (sub)urban schools and the impact on their practice. The author reports her findings and provides suggestions and teaching applications.
Attaining Understanding, Tolerance, and Respect Through Young Adult Lite
The purpose of Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools is to assist secondary English Language Arts rural educators and students regarding diversity education by facilitating the development of understanding, tolerance, and respect toward those different form oneself through the use of rural, small town-themed young adult literature.
