{"product_id":"tending-iowas-land-pathways-to-a-sustainable-future-paperback","title":"Tending Iowa's Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCornelia F. Mutel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the last 200 years, Iowa's prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa's land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa's premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state's human and wild residents. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCornelia F. Mutel\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e (Iowa, 2008) and \u003ci\u003eA Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland\u003c\/i\u003e (Iowa, 2016). She is the former senior science writer at IIHR-Hydroscience \u0026amp; Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. Mutel lives in Iowa City, Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 302\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.9 x 5.75 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772208709920,"sku":"9781609388737","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/043558e75563434486e269be16954a59.webp?v=1780401277","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tending-iowas-land-pathways-to-a-sustainable-future-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}