Adaptation on an Agricultural Frontier: Socio-Ecological Profiles of Great Plains Settlement, 1870–1940

Geoff Cunfer is Associate Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890–1960 (Lubbock, 2010); On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment (College Station, 2005); “Manure Matters on the Great Plains Frontier,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXXIV (2004), 539–567.

Fridolin Krausmann is Professor of Sustainable Resource Use, Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen-Adria University. He is lead author of “Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production Doubled in the 20th Century,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, CX (2013), 10324–10329, available at www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1211349110; with Helmut Haberl and Karlheinz Erb, “Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: Patterns, Trends, and Planetary Boundaries,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, XXXIX (2014), 363–391.