About the Author
Richard K. Olson is a researcher with the Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The editor of five other books addressing human impacts on envrionment, he is currently examining ways to relocalize agriculture and increase local food security. Thomas A. Lyson is a professor in the Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University. He also serves as director of the Farming Alternatives Program at Cornell, and as editor of Rural Sociology.