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

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Andrew S. Mathews

Trees Are Shape Shifters

How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes

Andrew S. Mathews

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Yale University Press
30 March 2023

European history; Conservation of the environment; Trees, wildflowers & plants

Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series

An 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 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.

By: Andrew S. Mathews
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
ISBN: 9780300260373
ISBN 10: 0300260377
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 30 March 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew S. Mathews is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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

Andrew Mathews tells an important story, tracing the trajectory of a human-managed landscape across recent centuries into our Anthropocene era of climate change. But he also shows us the role of story-telling and of other ways of learning, knowing and communicating, offering new directions for action at this time of pressing challenges. -Ben Orlove, author of Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca Trees are Shape Shifters is original and rich, a fertile blending of local, place-based research with considerations of the global issue of climate change: the planet through the Tuscan landscape -Marco Armiero, President of the European Society for Environmental History