Humanity faces a triple threat of climate change, biodiversity loss, and global food insecurity.
In response, increasing the general adaptive capacity of farming systems is essential. We …

The term 'amenity migration'describes a broad diversity of patterns of human movement to
rural places in search of particular lifestyle attributes. This review of international literature …

Rural communities throughout the postindustrial world are in the midst of a significant
transition, sometimes referred to as rural restructuring, as traditional land uses, economic …

Crop and livestock farmers must respond to climate change, including a range of physical
and cultural impacts and risks. In rural northern California, farmers face extreme drought and …

Livestock grazing on natural rangeland vegetation is one of the most extensive land uses on
the earth, with important implications for livelihoods, food security and the environment …

In recent years the “working landscape” concept has risen to prominence in popular,
academic, and policy discourse surrounding conservation of both natural and cultural values …

For more than 150 years, ranchers in the West have gained insight about natural systems
through daily interaction and management of landscapes, but this knowledge has never …

A vast and growing interdisciplinary research effort has focused on the rise of the so‐called
New West, purportedly the product of regional socioeconomic, political, and ecological …

Motivations for owning rural land are shifting from an agricultural-production orientation to a
preference for natural and cultural amenities. Resultant changes in land management have …

Farmers are front-line workers managing climatic change. As in many parts of the world,
climate change in northern California is threatening natural resource-dependent …