Natural Resource Management Set

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1. Asking the Earth

   Farms, Forestry and Survival in India

   By Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   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....

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
2. After the Green Revolution

   Sustainable Agriculture for Development

   By Gordon R. Conway, Edward B. Barbier

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   '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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
3. Controlling Tropical Deforestation

   Edited by Alan Grainger

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
4. Waterlogged Wealth

   Why waste the world's wet places?

   By Edward Maltby

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   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....

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
5. No Timber Without Trees

   Sustainability in the tropical forest

   By Duncan Poore

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
6. The Threatening Desert

   Controlling desertification

   Edited by Alan Grainger

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
7. Unwelcome Harvest

   Agriculture and pollution

   By Gordon R. Conway, Jules N. Pretty

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
8. Trees, People and Power

   By Peter Utting

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
9. Our Common Seas

   Coasts in Crisis

   By Don Hinrichsen

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   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...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Industrial Agriculture

    By Tracey Clunies-Ross, Nicholas Hildyard

    Series: Natural Resource Management Set

    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...

    Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge