Cycles of landscape change and place-meanings in Midwestern farming communities
Strauser, John
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Title
Cycles of landscape change and place-meanings in Midwestern farming communities
Author(s)
Strauser, John
Issue Date
2022-07-11
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Stewart, William P.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Miller, James
Committee Member(s)
Payne, Laura L.
Gobster, Paul H.
Department of Study
Natural Res & Env Sci
Discipline
Natural Res & Env Sciences
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Regional Place-Making, Agriculture
Abstract
To improve ecological conditions concerted efforts are needed on privately owned property. With roughly 70% of the midwestern United States dedicated to agriculture, private farming decisions will have a large impact on human and ecological communities. Despite the need for conservation farming, the adoption of such strategies has lagged. In response, agencies and researchers have examined ways to encourage the adoption of conservation farming practices. Social science research connected to conservation agriculture has generally focused on site-based change at the scale of a given farm. Recent reviews of the literature have called for a need to introduce new concepts and theories. In this dissertation, three peer-reviewed papers are presented along with introduction and conclusion chapters related to agrarian landscape change framed as part of regional place-making processes. Taking a regional approach advances the literature by considering place production as relationally influenced across varying spatial scales.
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