Forest, Field, and Fallow

Dr. Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins is a permanent Program Director of the Geography and Spatial Sciences program at the National Science Foundation. She holds a PhD in geography, with a minor in soil science, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Master's in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. Dr. WinklerPrins' academic research has focused on environmental knowledge systems, smallholder agriculture, agro-biodiversity, and sustainable livelihoods in urban and rural areas of developing countries. Much of her research has been conducted in the Brazilian Amazon, but she has also been involved in research projects in Kenya, Mexico, and the U.S.A. She has investigated networks of agro-biodiversity maintenance and has looked at how Amazonian Dark Earths (fertile anthropogenic soils) were created in the past, how they may be recreated in the future, and their implication for conservation and development for the Amazon region. Dr. Kent Mathewson is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University. He holds a PhD and a Master's in Geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Mathewson's research interests include topics in the history of geography, human and cultural geography in Europe and the Americas, food security in the Caribbean, and botanical elements of the African diaspora.

Chapter1. Historical Demography.- Chapter2. Agricultural Landforms.- Chapter3. Cultural Plant Geography.- Chapter4. Human Environmental Impacts.- Chapter5. Indigenous Agro-Ecology.- Chapter6. Tropical Agriculture.- Chapter7. Livestock and Landscape.- Chapter 8. Synthetic Contributions.- Chapter9. By Way of Background: A Biographical Sketch of William M. Denevan.- Chapter10. Being a Student of Bill Denevan.- Chapter 11. Bill Denevan - An Appreciation.-