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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “carsten smith hall”
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  • The bioeconomy and non-timber forest products

    Edited by Carsten Smith-Hall, James Chamberlain ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.While the plants and fungi that produce non-timber forest products are essential to the sustainability of forest ecosystems, peoples' food and livelihood security and sovereignty, and thus the bioeconomy, are often absent from bioeconomic strategies ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence

    Methods for Research and Fieldwork

    Edited by Arild Angelsen, Helle Overgaard Larsen, Jens Friis Lund, Carsten Smith-Hall, Sven Wunder ...
    Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every year. Unfortunately, many suffer from weaknesses in methods and problems in implementation. Quantifying households' dependence on multiple environmental resources (forests, bush, grasslands and rivers) is particularly difficult and often simply ignored in the surveys. The results therefore do not reflect rural ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • One Billion Hungry

    Can We Feed the World?

    by Gordon Conway ...
    Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • ENVIRONMENT & FOOD

    by Colin Sage ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
    This timely book provides a thorough introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. Its primary purpose is to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and interconnections between what we eat and how this impacts on the earth’s resources. Having a better idea of the consequences of our food choices might encourage us to develop more sustainable practices of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Synthesis for the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    based largely on information provided in fourteen country reports submitted to FAO as part of the reporting process for the report on The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture.Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the diversity of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, present in and around crop, livestock, forest and aquatic ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Sustainable Food

    Smart Policies for Health and the Planet

    Edited by Nicoletta Batini ...
    Producing food industrially like we do today causes tremendous global economic losses in terms of malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation. But because the food industry does not bear those costs and the price tag for these losses does not show up at the grocery store, it is too often ignored by economists and policymakers.The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

    Lessons from Cuba

    by Julia Wright ...
    When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis after the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Food in a Changing Climate

    by Alana Mann ...
    Series series SocietyNow
    Our diets are going to change dramatically as global warming affects growing seasons and the availability of different foods around the world. Meanwhile, our foodways are among the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.To address these challenges Food in a Changing Climate demands we look beyond our plates to the roots of inequity in our food systems. It presents an unashamedly ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Sustainable Land Management: Challenges, Opportunities, And Trade-Offs

    by World Bank ...
    Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Agri-Culture

    Reconnecting People, Land and Nature

    by Jules Pretty OBE ...
    'Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories and metaphors'Tim O'Riordan, University of East Anglia, UK'A great balance between storytelling and analysis which points to the critical need for gaining control over resources'Jacqueline Ashby, CIAT, Colombia'Full of supporting evidence and clear arguments'Norman Uphoff, Cornell University, US'A wonderful book, put together with such ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)

    Edited by Maiko Nishi, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Himangana Gupta ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This is an open access book. It is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the interlinkages between biodiversity and multiple dimensions of health (e.g., physical, mental, and spiritual) in managing socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS). This book ... Read more

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  • True Cost Accounting for Food

    Balancing the Scale

    Edited by Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Lauren E. Baker, Paula A. Daniels ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system.Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving the ... Read more

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