Alice Austen was born into a socially prominent Staten Island family in 1866. Her father abandoned her mother before she was born, so she grew up with her grandparents in Clear Comfort, their home ...

Sommers, a professor of geography, explains the role that landscape, history, economics and culture play in wine regions from Burgundy to Australia to California. While the varied microclimates of the ...

The study of landscape dynamics is the story of how our planet has developed from the depths of geological time through to more recent history. Incorporated within this are the active and ongoing ...

Land-cover change from forest to agriculture is widely recognized as a primary cause of accelerated soil erosion. Floodplains in agricultural watersheds represent fluvial archives for understanding ...