Our Sustainable Future – serie
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Crisis and Opportunity
Sustainability in American Agriculture
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
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With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable terms. Here one of the most eloquent and influential …
Making Nature, Shaping Culture
Plant Biodiversity in Global Context
Av Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
739 kr
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For ages, farmers have domesticated plant varieties, while scientists have "made" nature through hybridization and other processes. This give and take—mediated through negotiations, persuasion, the marketplace, and even coercion—has resulted in what we call "nature" and has led to a homogenization …
Crop Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture
Av M. Brett Callaway, Charles A. Francis
Inbunden, 1993
739 kr
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Conventional agriculture has attempted to exploit arable land by applying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water. These practices become increasingly tenuous as they exhaust our supplies of fossil fuels, deplete aquifers and raise concerns about the safety of food and the overall …
Remaking the North American Food System
Strategies for Sustainability
Av C. Clare Hinrichs, Thomas A. Lyson
Häftad, 2009
331 kr
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Food and agriculture are in the news daily. Stories in the media highlight issues of abundance, deprivation, pleasure, risk, health, community, and identity. Remaking the North American Food System examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food …
Ecology and Economics of the Great Plains
Häftad, 2010
331 kr
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The Great Plains were once characterized by vast expanses of grass, complex interdependence among species, and dynamic annual changes due to weather, waterways, and fire. It is now generally accepted that less than one percent of the original tallgrass prairie remains. Habitat fragmentation, the …
Green Illusions
The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
Av Ozzie Zehner
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
359 kr
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We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. Though we generally believe we can solve environmental …
Traveling the Power Line
From the Mojave Desert to the Bay of Fundy
Häftad, 2013
218 kr
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In our power-hungry world, all the talk about energy—what's safe and what's risky, what's clean and what's dirty, what's cheap and what's easy—tends to generate more heat than light. What, Julianne Couch wanted to know, is the real story on power production in this country? Approaching the question …
Imagining Seattle
Social Values in Urban Governance
Inbunden, 2019
514 kr
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Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin D. Houston uses a case study of Seattle to shed light on how ideas about environmentalism, privilege, oppression, and economic growth have become entwined in …
Remaking American Communities
A Reference Guide to Urban Sprawl
Häftad, 2007
387 kr
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Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. Comprehensive enough for high school students and also appropriate for college …
Green Plans
Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
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"Green plans" are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. In this definitive overview of green plans today, Huey D. Johnson provides a detailed and accessible examination of their theory, implementation, …
Uphill Against Water
The Great Dakota Water War
Häftad, 1999
289 kr
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In Uphill against Water, Peter Carrels examines the history of Missouri River water development projects in general and describes the struggle over one of the largest of those projects, South Dakota's Oahe irrigation project, in detail. Opposition to the Oahe project was intense and well organized. …
Sustainable Compromises
A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
Av Alan Boye
Häftad, 2014
246 kr
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Living simply isn't always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise—until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he'd built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years later, …
Good Growing
Why Organic Farming Works
Häftad, 2005
246 kr
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Over the past decade, organic products have become the fastest growing sector of agriculture, with an annual increase of at least 20 percent. This book explains why organic production and consumption have seen such phenomenal growth in recent years—and, even more important, why they should. A …
Down and Out on the Family Farm
Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945
Av Michael Johnston Grant, Charles A. Francis
Häftad, 2002
457 kr
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Focusing on the Great Plains states of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota between 1929 and 1945, Down and Out on the Family Farm examines small family farmers and the Rural Rehabilitation Program designed to help them. Historian Michael Johnston Grant reveals the tension between …
Conspiracy of Optimism
Management of the National Forests Since World War Two
Av Paul W. Hirt
Häftad, 1996
275 kr
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A Conspiracy of Optimism explains the controversy now raging over the U.S. Forest Service's management of America's national forests. Confronted with the dual mandate of production and preservation, the U.S. Forest Service decided it could achieve both goals through more intensive management. For a …
Changing the Way America Farms
Knowledge and Community in the Sustainable Agriculture Movement
Häftad, 1999
387 kr
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Changing the Way America Farms traces the manner in which alternative farmers have developed and exchanged their own personal, local knowledge as a basis for moving toward an agricultural system that is ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Neva Hassanein studies the patterns …
Raising a Stink
The Struggle Over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska
Häftad, 2003
246 kr
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In Nebraska, as in many states across the nation, factory farms housing tens of thousands of hogs have altered the physical, cultural, and economic landscape, and have generated complex and deeply divisive conflicts among family farmers, environmentalists, agribusinesses, and elected officials. A …
Roots of Change
Nebraska's New Agriculture
Av Mary Ridder
Häftad, 2007
275 kr
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Among the vast corporate and smaller family-sized farms and agribusinesses of Nebraska, the old pioneering spirit of entrepreneurship is rising again, this time in the form of sustainable and organic growers, cooperatives, artisans, and visionaries—those who seek to enhance the quality of life and …
Five-Ton Life
Carbon, America, and the Culture That May Save Us
Av Susan Subak
Häftad, 2018
275 kr
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Winner of the 2018 Nautilus Book Award, Silver, for Green Living/Sustainability At nearly twenty tons per person, American carbon dioxide emissions are among the highest in the world. Not every American fits this statistic, however. Across the country there are urban neighborhoods, suburbs, rural …
Ogallala
Water for a Dry Land
Av John Opie, Char Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
399 kr
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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet …
In Defense of Farmers
The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power
Av Jane Gibson, Sara Alexander
Inbunden, 2019
502 kr
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Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focus on the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial …
In Defense of Farmers
The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power
Av Jane Gibson, Sara Alexander
E-bok, 2019
348 kr
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Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focus on the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial …
Imagining Seattle
Social Values in Urban Governance
E-bok, 2019
296 kr
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Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin D. Houston uses a case study of Seattle to shed light on how ideas about environmentalism, privilege, oppression, and economic growth have become entwined in …
Imagining Seattle
Social Values in Urban Governance
E-bok, 2019
296 kr
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Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin D. Houston uses a case study of Seattle to shed light on how ideas about environmentalism, privilege, oppression, and economic growth have become entwined in …
Imagining Seattle
Social Values in Urban Governance
Häftad, 2021
331 kr
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Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin D. Houston uses a case study of Seattle to shed light on how ideas about environmentalism, privilege, oppression, and economic growth have become entwined in …
Visible Hands That Feed
Responsibility and Growth in the Food Sector
Inbunden, 2023
627 kr
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The Visible Hands That Feed provides crucial insights into the rifts and regularities that are characteristic of today’s food systems. These insights attend to the widespread disquiet about the ethics and politics of food production and trade. While challenging utopian thinking, these findings give …
In Defense of Farmers
The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power
Av Jane Gibson, Sara Alexander
Häftad, 2022
387 kr
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Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focus on the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial …
Agricultural Research Alternatives
Av William Lockeretz, Molly D. Anderson
Inbunden, 1993
565 kr
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Clearly, the debate is no longer over agricultural sustainability as a legitimate goal, but about how to fulfill that goal. Research is a vital factor contributing to the creation of a sustainable agriculture. Entrenched ideas about the way agricultural research is conducted have been challenged by …
Ecology and Economics of the Great Plains
Inbunden, 1997
342 kr
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The Great Plains were once characterized by vast expanses of grass, complex interdependence among species, and dynamic annual changes due to weather, waterways, and fire. It is now generally accepted that less than one percent of the original tallgrass prairie remains. Habitat fragmentation, the …
Growing Local
Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains
Av Robert P. King, Michael S. Hand m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
677 kr
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In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that “relocalization” of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower …
