Working Landscapes and Place Perception

How are rural lands performed, worked and re-produced?  How do people interpret physical environments?  Who decides land uses? What are the connections between place identities and personal identities?  What happens when personal identities and place meanings conflict? How to people interact with rural nature?

Morehouse, Harlan and Cheryl Morse. 2023.  Sense and Consent in Co-Creating with Earth Others. Environmental Humanities 15(1). https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/15/1/44/343373/Sense-and-Consent-in-Cocreating-with-Earth-Others

Braconnier, Meryl, Cheryl E. Morse, and Stephanie Hurley. 2022. Using Photovisualizations to Gain Perspectives on River Conservation over Time. Land. 11(4):534. 10.3390/land11040534. .

Horner, C.E., C. Morse, N. Carpenter, K.L. Nordstrom, J.W. Faulkner, T. Mares, E. Kinnebrew, M. Caswell, V. Izzo, V.E. Méndez, S.A. Lewins and N. McCune. 2021. Cultivating Pedagogy for Transformative Learning: A Decade of Undergraduate Agroecology Education. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 5 (412): 10.3389/fsufs.2021.751115. Impact factor: 3.95.
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Morse, C.* R. Gould,* A. Adams, and J. Brooks. 2020. "So much for access:" Difference, Benefits and Barriers at Hawaii's Shorelines. Geographical Review.
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Morse, C., A. Trubek, C. Morgan. 2020. Planning Regenerative Working Landscapes, chapter for Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Foods Systems, Routledge, editors: Jessica Duncan; Michael Carolan; Han Wiskerke. 

Morse, C. 2019. Faith and Doubt in an American Working Landscape: The Role of Place, Work, and Scale in Rural Planning. Society and Natural Resources. 32(2): 150-166. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1511021

Morse, C. 2018.The Multifunctionality of the Country Store: Insights on Resilience from Rural Vermont. Geographical Review 108(3): 457-475.  DOI: 10.1111/gere.12264.

Sarah Galbraith of the Times Argus / Rutland Herald wrote this newspaper article based on the store research: https://www.timesargus.com/articles/at-the-center/

Morse, C.E. , Strong, A.M., Mendez, V.E., Lovell, S.T., Troy, A.R., and Morris, W.B. 2014. Performing a New England Landscape: Viewing, Engaging, and Belonging. Journal of Rural Studies, 36: 226-236.

New Research:

Dowsing as a Landscape Practice
in collaboration with UVM Geography colleague Dr Harlan Morehouse, I am researching how people use dowsing as a tool to make land use and other environmental decisions in a context of environmental change. This research is underway in the UK and the Northeast US.