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  • Crop Ecology

    Productivity and Management in Agricultural Systems

    by David J. Connor, Robert S. Loomis, Kenneth G. Cassman ...
    Food security and environmental conservation are two of the greatest challenges facing the world today. It is predicted that food production must increase by at least 70% before 2050 to support continued population growth, though the size of the world's agricultural area will remain essentially unchanged. This updated and thoroughly revised second edition provides in-depth coverage of the impact ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

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  • Never Out of Season

    How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future

    by Rob Dunn ...
    The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out.That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance once-rare fruits are ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Earth Odyssey

    Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future

    by Mark Hertsgaard ...
    Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey lasting most of the decade and spanning nineteen countries. Now, in Earth Odyssey, he reports on our environmental predicament through the eyes of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    by Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Sprinter and Sprummer

    Australia's Changing Seasons

    by Timothy Entwisle ...
    Sprinter and Sprummer challenges the traditional four seasons, and encourages us to think about how we view changes in our natural world. Since 1788, Australia has carried the yoke of four European seasons that make no sense in most parts of the country. We may like them for historical or cultural reasons, or because they are the same throughout the world, but they tell us nothing of our natural ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Birds and Habitat

    Relationships in Changing Landscapes

    Edited by Robert J. Fuller ...
    Series series Ecological Reviews
    The successful conservation of bird species relies upon our understanding of their habitat use and requirements. In the coming decades the importance of such knowledge will only grow as climate change, the development of new energy sources and the needs of a growing human population intensify the, already significant, pressure on the habitats that birds depend on. Drawing on valuable recent ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Ecosystem Services – Concept, Methods and Case Studies

    Edited by Karsten Grunewald, Olaf Bastian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Nature provides us with many services seemingly for free: recharged groundwater, fertile soil and plant biomass created by photosynthesis. We human beings draw extensive benefits from these “ecosystem services,” or ES – food, water supply, recreation and protection from natural hazards. Major international studies, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, have addressed the enormous role of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Collaborative Resilience

    Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity

    Edited by Bruce E Goldstein ...
    Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration, consensus building, and transformative social change. Communities often experience a surge of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife

    by James Gleeson, Deborah Gleeson ...
    The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today. This problem is largely due to the impact humans have had on land use through development (e.g. agricultural, residential, industrial, infrastructure and mining developments). The requirement for developers to implement measures to reduce the ... Read more

    $71.29 USD

  • Conservation of Tropical Rainforests

    A Review of Financial and Strategic Solutions

    by Brian Joseph McFarland ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Environmental Policy and Regulation
    This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical rainforests is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical deforestation, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and finance, the book reviews several conservation financing instruments. These include ecotourism and private reserves, debt-for-nature swaps and government domestic budgetary ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan

    The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building

    by Harry Verhoeven ...
    Series Book 131 - African Studies
    In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionary regime was built on four pillars - a new politics, economic liberalisation, an Islamic revival, and a U-turn in foreign relations - and mixed militant conservatism with social engineering: a vision of authoritarian modernisation. Water and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Food, Energy and Water Sustainability

    Emergent Governance Strategies

    Edited by Laura M. Pereira, Caitlin A. McElroy, Alexandra Littaye, Alexandra M. Girard ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management. This volume presents a diversity of collaborations between various governance actors in the management of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD