Ebook {Epub PDF} Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast by Ellen Stroud

 · Ellen Stroud: Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, ISBN , Price $ (hardcover), xx+ pages. Benktesh D. Sharma 1 Human Ecology volume 41, pages – ()Cite this articleAuthor: Benktesh D. Sharma. "Nature Next Door shows how urbanization, farm abandonment, state policies, and conservation have left the American Northeast far more forested than it has been since the eighteenth century or before. It is among the most profound and surprising transformations in the history of the American landscape― and quite different from the usual stories of decline and degradation that are so familiar in Cited by: 7.  · Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast. By. Ellen. Stroud.

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Ellen Stroud: Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, ISBN , Price $ (hardcover), xx+ pages. Benktesh D. Sharma 1 Human Ecology volume 41, pages – ()Cite this article. Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast was published in by the University of Washington Press. The book explores the transition from farm to woodlands in the northeastern United States and the relationship of that transition to the early-twentieth-century growth of northeastern cities. "Nature Next Door shows how urbanization, farm abandonment, state policies, and conservation have left the American Northeast far more forested than it has been since the eighteenth century or before. It is among the most profound and surprising transformations in the history of the American landscape― and quite different from the usual stories of decline and degradation that are so familiar in environmental history.