Indiana Transformations: Human Impacts on the Hoosier Landscape
In the Anthropocene era, every inch of the Earth has been permanently impacted by human forces. As human civilization fundamentally distorts deep ecology, the vastness of the changes becomes difficult for us to visualize and comprehend. What if we could compress it into a defined space to better visualize it and perceive it globally and locally?

Indiana Transformations presents the Hoosier state as a microcosm of the Anthropocene and our interactions with it. It captures key features of this worldwide phenomenon within a regional, bounded space, collapsing the global into the local. Drone photography from more than 45 locations across Indiana provides readers with a new visualization of the environment in which we live. By documenting the current epoch within a narrow scope, author Zach Schrank and photographer Aaron Yoder convey how the Anthropocene is not an exotic feature of a landscape on the other side of the world but is present in a space as unassuming as Indiana.

Showcasing stunning imagery of humans' profound environmental impact, Indiana Transformations helps readers appreciate the scale of change around us.

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Indiana Transformations: Human Impacts on the Hoosier Landscape
In the Anthropocene era, every inch of the Earth has been permanently impacted by human forces. As human civilization fundamentally distorts deep ecology, the vastness of the changes becomes difficult for us to visualize and comprehend. What if we could compress it into a defined space to better visualize it and perceive it globally and locally?

Indiana Transformations presents the Hoosier state as a microcosm of the Anthropocene and our interactions with it. It captures key features of this worldwide phenomenon within a regional, bounded space, collapsing the global into the local. Drone photography from more than 45 locations across Indiana provides readers with a new visualization of the environment in which we live. By documenting the current epoch within a narrow scope, author Zach Schrank and photographer Aaron Yoder convey how the Anthropocene is not an exotic feature of a landscape on the other side of the world but is present in a space as unassuming as Indiana.

Showcasing stunning imagery of humans' profound environmental impact, Indiana Transformations helps readers appreciate the scale of change around us.

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Indiana Transformations: Human Impacts on the Hoosier Landscape

Indiana Transformations: Human Impacts on the Hoosier Landscape

Indiana Transformations: Human Impacts on the Hoosier Landscape

Indiana Transformations: Human Impacts on the Hoosier Landscape

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Overview

In the Anthropocene era, every inch of the Earth has been permanently impacted by human forces. As human civilization fundamentally distorts deep ecology, the vastness of the changes becomes difficult for us to visualize and comprehend. What if we could compress it into a defined space to better visualize it and perceive it globally and locally?

Indiana Transformations presents the Hoosier state as a microcosm of the Anthropocene and our interactions with it. It captures key features of this worldwide phenomenon within a regional, bounded space, collapsing the global into the local. Drone photography from more than 45 locations across Indiana provides readers with a new visualization of the environment in which we live. By documenting the current epoch within a narrow scope, author Zach Schrank and photographer Aaron Yoder convey how the Anthropocene is not an exotic feature of a landscape on the other side of the world but is present in a space as unassuming as Indiana.

Showcasing stunning imagery of humans' profound environmental impact, Indiana Transformations helps readers appreciate the scale of change around us.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253072153
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 02/04/2025
Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy And
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 10.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Zach Schrank is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for a Sustainable Future at Indiana University South Bend. Zach is a ninth-generation Hoosier. Aaron Yoder is an FAA-certified drone pilot and photographer from South Bend, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Primeval States of Nature
2. Deforestation
3. Extraction
4. Limestone and Aggregate Quarries
5. Surface Coal Mining
6. Coal Power
7. Oil Refining and Petrochemical Production
8. Steel Production
9. Automobile Production
10. Transportation and Distribution
11. Industrial Agriculture
12. Renewable Energy
13. Anthroposcenery and the Built Environment
14. Disposal
15. Ruins
Author and Photographer
Notes
Index

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