Natural Resource Management Set – serie
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22 produkter
After the Green Revolution
Sustainable Agriculture for Development
Av Gordon R. Conway, Edward B. Barbier
Häftad, 2013
747 kr
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'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made …
Politics of Industrial Agriculture
Av Tracey Clunies-Ross, Nicholas Hildyard
Häftad, 2020
514 kr
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In the last forty years, agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to extensive rural depopulation; widespread degradation of the environment; contamination of food with agrochemicals and bacteria; more …
Unwelcome Harvest
Agriculture and pollution
Av Gordon R. Conway, Jules N. Pretty
Häftad, 2013
530 kr
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Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces …
Genes from the Wild
Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials
Av Robert Prescott-Allen, Christine Prescott-Allen
Häftad, 2018
428 kr
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Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has been used to extend Soviet carp …
Threatening Desert
Controlling desertification
Av Alan Grainger, Alan Grainger
Häftad, 2015
500 kr
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Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation to the planet. It is certainly one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world today. In this book the author describes what is happening and where. Although the problem …
Our Common Seas
Coasts in Crisis
Häftad, 2016
460 kr
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Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial …
Controlling Tropical Deforestation
Av Alan Grainger, Alan Grainger
Häftad, 2018
617 kr
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Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for …
Genes from the Wild
Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials
Av Robert Prescott-Allen, Christine Prescott-Allen
Inbunden, 2009
1517 kr
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Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has been used to extend Soviet carp …
Waterlogged Wealth
Why waste the world's wet places?
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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Don't drain the swamp!Man's traditional response to swamps, marshes and bogs has been to drain them.But wetlands are not wastelands. Coastal marshes are among the world's most productive ecosystems. They make many commercial fisheries possible and protect coasts from floods and storm surges. …
Threatening Desert
Controlling desertification
Av Alan Grainger, Alan Grainger
Inbunden, 2009
1517 kr
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Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation to the planet. It is certainly one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world today. In this book the author describes what is happening and where. Although the problem …
Our Common Seas
Coasts in Crisis
Inbunden, 2009
1395 kr
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Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial …
Asking the Earth
Farms, Forestry and Survival in India
Av Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited. This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. …
After the Green Revolution
Sustainable Agriculture for Development
Av Gordon R. Conway, Edward B. Barbier
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made …
Saving the Seed
Genetic diversity and European agriculture
Av Renee Vellve
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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Genetic diversity is essential to the security of agriculture. Without the availability of a wide range of plant varieties and the genetic resources they contain, crops cannot adapt to combat the ever-changing threats of pests, diseases and climatic change. Yet, with the increasing …
Unwelcome Harvest
Agriculture and pollution
Av Gordon R. Conway, Jules N. Pretty
Inbunden, 2009
1921 kr
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Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces …
Politics of Industrial Agriculture
Av Tracey Clunies-Ross, Nicholas Hildyard
Inbunden, 2009
2303 kr
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In the last forty years, agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to extensive rural depopulation; widespread degradation of the environment; contamination of food with agrochemicals and bacteria; more …
No Timber Without Trees
Sustainability in the tropical forest
Av Duncan Poore
Inbunden, 2009
762 kr
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Much of the world's tropical timber is still supplied from natural forest, but under current systems of management the forests are rapidly becoming exhausted. Unless management practices change to become genuinely sustainable, neither the forests nor the essential contribution of the timber …
Controlling Tropical Deforestation
Av Alan Grainger, Alan Grainger
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for …
Plantation Politics
Forest plantations in development
Av Caroline Sargent, Stephen Bass
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South. Plantation Politics is the first book to examine their rationale and purpose, exposing the misconceptions and myths that have surrounded their role, and describing the contribution they can …
Saving the Tropical Forests
Av Judith Gradwohl, Russell Greenberg
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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The destruction of the tropical forest is one of the major problems of our time. Vast areas are rapidly becoming wastelands which support only a few tough weeds, perhaps some cattle, and the farms allowed to the poor. This book provides a vision of hope: in Latin America. Africa. And South East …
Trees, People and Power
Av Peter Utting
Inbunden, 2009
1517 kr
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Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it. Trees, People and Power looks at the various groups, interests and conflicts involved, and explores the repercussions for forestry, the environment …
The Rural Economy and the British Countryside
Av Paul Allanson, Martin Whitby
Inbunden, 1996
376 kr
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Mention of the British countryside commonly evokes visions of pastoral contentment, but the nature of rural Britain has changed dramatically since 1945. This book offers critical perspectives on the changing profile of rural Britain. It considers the meaning of the term 'rural' and what might …
