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  • Regenerating Agriculture

    An Alternative Strategy for Growth

    by Jules N. Pretty ...
    For the past 50 years, the main goal of agriculture has been to increase production at any price, using high amounts of fertilizers and pesticides and intensive industrial methods. This has caused damage to the environment and widespread rural depopulation. This study shows that there is a viable alternative - a form of agriculture which conserves resources, maintains rural employment and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Unwelcome Harvest

    Agriculture and pollution

    by Gordon R. Conway, Jules N. Pretty ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    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 methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Low-Carbon Good Life

    by Jules Pretty ...
    Series series Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
    The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.Across the world today and throughout history, good lives are characterised by healthy food, connections to nature, being active, togetherness, personal growth, a spiritual framework and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Earth Only Endures

    On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place in It

    by Jules Pretty ...
    For most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now, for the first time, more people are living in urban rather than rural areas, bringing about an estrangement. This book, by acclaimed author Jules Pretty, is fundamentally about our relationship with nature, animals and places.A series of interlinked essays leads readers on a voyage that weaves ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The East Country

    Almanac Tales of Valley and Shore

    by Jules Pretty ...
    The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single compelling narrative. Pretty frames his book around Aldo Leopold and his classic A Sand County Almanac, bringing Leopold's ethic—that some could live without nature but most should not—into the twenty-first ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Edge of Extinction

    Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands

    by Jules Pretty ...
    In The Edge of Extinction**, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature**. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • This Luminous Coast

    Walking England's Eastern Edge

    by Jules Pretty ...
    Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Agri-Culture

    Reconnecting People, Land and Nature

    by Jules Pretty ...
    '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

    $57.99 USD

  • Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture

    Greening the World's Food Economy

    by Jules Pretty, Zareen Pervez Bharucha ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Sustainable intensification (SI) has emerged in recent years as a powerful new conceptualisation of agricultural sustainability and has been widely adopted in policy circles and debates. It is defined as a process or system where yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the cultivation of more land.Co-written by Jules Pretty, one of the pioneers of the concept and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Living Land

    Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

    by Jules Pretty Obe ...
    The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture, localised food systems and rural community development. All three offer ways of rebuilding natural and social capital, and a large 'sustainability dividend' is waiting to be released from current practices - creating more jobs, more wealth and better lives from ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ecocultures

    Blueprints for Sustainable Communities

    Edited by Steffen Böhm, Zareen Pervez Bharucha, Jules Pretty ...
    The world faces a ‘perfect storm’ of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with these, communities are struggling to transition to sustainable ways of living that improve well-being and increase resilience. This book demonstrates how communities in both developed and developing ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Green Exercise

    Linking Nature, Health and Well-being

    Edited by Jo Barton, Rachel Bragg, Carly Wood, Jules Pretty ...
    The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature. This book provides a balanced overview and synthesis text on all aspects of Green Exercise and integrates evidence from many different disciplines including physiology, ecology, psychology, sociology and the environmental sciences, and across a wide range of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD