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Michael Mayerfeld Bell

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#924

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#1069

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#380

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Michael Mayerfeld Bell's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Bell is an American sociologist, author, and musician. He is currently Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Chair of the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology. In addition, Bell served as Director of UW-Madison's Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems from 2011 to 2019. Created in 1989, CIAS is a research center for sustainable agriculture programs that respond to the needs of farmers and citizens.

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Michael Mayerfeld Bell's Published Works

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The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture (2010) (478)
The idea of wilderness : from prehistory to the age of ecology (1992) (212)
The ghosts of place (1997) (190)
Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village (1995) (150)
The question of rural masculinities (2009) (137)
The two-ness of rural life and the ends of rural scholarship (2007) (129)
Coming back across the fence : Masculinity and the transition to sustainable agriculture (2009) (125)
Responses of soil microbial biomass and N availability to transition strategies from conventional to organic farming systems (2006) (122)
The Fruit of Difference: The Rural‐Urban Continuum as a System of Identity1 (2010) (110)
Mobilities and Ruralities: An Introduction (2010) (101)
An Invitation to Environmental Sociology (1998) (97)
Activating the Countryside: Rural Power, the Power of the Rural and the Making of Rural Politics (2010) (87)
Ecogender: Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science (2007) (77)
A holon approach to agroecology (2007) (72)
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences No Last Words (1998) (61)
Climate and soil properties limit the positive effects of land use reversion on carbon storage in Eastern Australia (2015) (60)
In Truth We Trust: Discourse, Phenomenology, and the Social Relations of Knowledge in an Environmental Dispute (2003) (58)
Management-Intensive Rotational Grazing Enhances Forage Production and Quality of Subhumid Cool-Season Pastures (2011) (57)
Farming without a recipe: Wisconsin graziers and new directions for agricultural science (2011) (49)
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: A Brief Introduction (1998) (37)
Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming (2019) (36)
Seed and Plant Breeding for Wisconsin’s Organic Vegetable Sector: Understanding Farmers’ Needs (2015) (35)
Simulated climate change impact on summer dissolved organic carbon release from peat and surface vegetation: implications for drinking water treatment. (2014) (33)
The Environmental Goffman: Toward an Environmental Sociology of Everyday Life (2009) (33)
Development and Implementation of a Long-term Agricultural Systems Study: Challenges and Opportunities (2002) (31)
Soil property indices for assessing short-term changes in soil quality (2008) (29)
Soil physical properties of agricultural systems in a large-scale study (2012) (29)
The ghosts of taste: food and the cultural politics of authenticity (2011) (27)
Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture & the Cultivation of Sustainability (2004) (27)
Rationality and Solidarities: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco (2000) (26)
Sensitivity of peatland litter decomposition to changes in temperature and rainfall (2018) (26)
Regulated freedoms: the market and the state, agriculture and the environment (2000) (26)
Assessing ecosystem variance at different scales to generalize about pasture management in southern Wisconsin (2007) (25)
Did New England Go Downhill (1989) (24)
Managing peatland vegetation for drinking water treatment (2016) (24)
Rented land Barriers to sustainable agriculture (2004) (23)
Commentary: The productivity of variability: an agroecological hypothesis (2008) (22)
An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork: A Multilogical Approach (2015) (22)
Culture as Dialogue (1998) (22)
Farmer perspectives and experiences introducing the novel perennial grain Kernza intermediate wheatgrass in the US Midwest (2019) (21)
Linked and Situated: Grounded Knowledge (2014) (21)
The Dialogue of Solidarities, or why the Lion Spared Androcles (1998) (20)
Maculate Conceptions: Power, Process, and Creativity in Participatory Research (2010) (19)
Can We? The Audacity of Environmental Hope (2009) (19)
Nitrous oxide emissions from cool-season pastures under managed grazing (2015) (18)
“We like insects here”: entomophagy and society in a Zambian village (2018) (18)
For the public good: weaving a multifunctional landscape in the Corn Belt (2013) (16)
Generalization without universalization: Towards an agroecology theory (2018) (16)
New challenges for education in agroecology (2018) (15)
A technique for assessing environmental impact risks of agricultural systems (2009) (14)
An Ecological Perspective on Medical Care: Environmental, Occupational, and Public Health Impacts of Medical Supply and Pharmaceutical Chains (2013) (12)
The second middle: Conducers and the agrifood economy (2016) (12)
Professional Development for the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture on Rented Land (2001) (11)
Environmental apartheid: Eco-health and rural marginalization in South Africa (2016) (11)
Creating and consuming the heartland: Symbolic boundaries in representations of femininity and rurality in U.S. Magazines (2015) (10)
Influence of field margin type on weed species richness and abundance in conventional crop fields (2010) (10)
The Vitality of Difference: Systems Theory, the Environment, and the Ghost of Parsons (2005) (9)
What soil information do crop advisors use to develop nitrogen fertilizer recommendations for grain growers in New South Wales, Australia? (2019) (7)
Deep fecology: Mikhail Bakhtin and the call of nature∗ (1994) (7)
The social economy of rural life: an introduction☆ (2000) (7)
City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right (2018) (7)
Walking towards justice : democratization in rural life (2003) (6)
Tracking nitrogen from the paddock to the reef-a case study from the Great Barrier Reef (2016) (6)
The Rationalization of Risk (2002) (6)
Vegetation dynamics associated with changes in atmospheric nitrogen deposition and climate in hardwood forests of Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks, USA. (2018) (6)
Long-term, large-scale systems research directed toward agricultural sustainability. (2006) (5)
Mobilizing the Countryside: Rural Power and the Power of the Rural (2008) (5)
Shifting agrifood systems: a comment (2008) (5)
The Strange Music of Social Life: A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology (2011) (4)
Maize production and nitrous oxide emissions from enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers (2021) (4)
Affect and Taste: Bourdieu, Traditional Music, and the Performance of Possibilities (2017) (3)
Towards pagan agroecology: special section on subjectiving the objective: participation , sustainability and agroecological research (2011) (3)
Dialogue and Isodemocracy: An Essay on the Social Conditions of Good Talk (2001) (3)
Paradise: Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario. (1995) (3)
The Ecology of Dying: Commodity Chains, Governance, and the Medicalization of End-of-Life Care (2013) (3)
In the River: A Socio-Historical Account of Dialogue and Diaspora (2007) (3)
An agroecological vision of perennial agriculture (2021) (3)
Beyond Systems Thinking in Agroecology: Holons, Intentionality, and Resonant Configurations (2009) (2)
A review of phosphorus nutrition in irrigated cotton farming systems of Australia (2022) (2)
The agroecological imagination: Introduction (2018) (2)
The Arkansas traveler’s paradox: COVID-19 and the rural sociology of stupidity (2020) (2)
The Rural–Agriculture Power Play (2016) (2)
Welcome to the consumption line: sustainability, social organization and the wage- price gap (2013) (1)
Cotton root systems and recovery of applied P and K fertilisers (2015) (1)
The Dialectic of Technology: Commentary on Warner and England1 (2010) (1)
DIALOGUE AND ISODEMOCRACY: CREATING THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF GOOD TALK (2003) (1)
Engaged Intermediaries to Bridge the Gap between Scientists, Educational Practitioners and Farmers to Develop Sustainable Agri-Food Innovation Systems: A US Case Study (2021) (1)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
The Social Construction of the Ocean. By Philip E. Steinberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 270. $60.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). (2003) (0)
For the public good: weaving a multifunctional landscape in the Corn Belt (2013) (0)
Nitrogen release dynamics of enhanced efficiency fertilisers (EEFs): placement, soil factors and plant uptake (2022) (0)
Can We Balance Profit, Production and Pollution when Feeding Livestock? (2016) (0)
Nitrous oxide emissions from cool-season pastures under managed grazing (2015) (0)
Just Food—Sustenance, Fairness, and Biodiversity (2018) (0)
Conclusion: Envisioning Futures with Environmental Sociology (2020) (0)
Estimating Soil Organic Carbon Under Different Land-Use Types in Australia’s Northern Grains Region Using Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy (2020) (0)
Rural Geniuses (2007) (0)
“We like insects here”: entomophagy and society in a Zambian village (2018) (0)
Rural governance and power structures (2019) (0)
Queer Agriculture? LGBT Farmers in the U.S. (2008) (0)
Unexpected Pleasures: Qualities of Life of Wisconsin Dairy Farmers (2006) (0)
Response of irrigated cotton to applied nitrogen (2015) (0)
Nitrogen Deposition and Natura 2000: Science and Practice in Delivering Environmental Impacts ‐ edited by Hicks, W.K., Whitfield, C.P., Bealey, W.I. & Sutton, A.A. (2013) (0)
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From Non‐Believer to Believer: What Leads People to Change Their Climate Views (2022) (0)
The Environmental Sociology of the Good: Nature, Faith, and the Bourgeois Transition (2020) (0)
The Arkansas traveler’s paradox: COVID-19 and the rural sociology of stupidity (2020) (0)
The Problem of the Original Capitalist (2009) (0)
Ecological Power: Holons, Agency, and Environmental Change (2010) (0)
Death and the Environment: An Ecological Perspective of End-of-Life Medicine (2012) (0)
Of Commodities and Communities: Four American Faces of Food (2006) (0)
Sustaining Diversity in Agriculture: Wisconsin Women Farmers and Rural Femininities (2006) (0)
Coming to our sensens. (In search of) the body in environmental sociology. (1998) (0)
The Strange Music of Social Life (2011) (0)
The decomposition of vegetation and soil in marginal peat-forming landscapes: climate simulations to quantify gaseous and dissolved carbon fluxes and the effects on peat accumulation and drinking water treatment (2013) (0)
Drunk on Growth? Brewing Ethanol in the Wisconsin Countryside (2008) (0)
Extrapolating critical loads of nitrogen for alpine vegetation and assessing exceedance in national parks based on TDep Total N from 2002–2016 (2021) (0)
The direct and indirect role of climate in regulating litter decomposition processes in blanket peatlands (2017) (0)

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