"Explores the sustainability of American Agriculture, and possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents"--

Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Philip David Lowe Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison He is the author or editor of eleven books, including, most recently, The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology, An Invitation to Environmental Sociology (now in its sixth edition), and City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right.