Environment & Food

Name: Environment & Food
Author: Colin Sage

Auteur: Colin Sage

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Colin Sage Colin Sage

Engels
Paperback
9780415363129
07 juli 2011
320 pagina's

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This book provides the student with an accessible yet comprehensive exploration of the ways in which the environment has shaped food production and consumption and is in turn impacted by these contemporary practices.

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 production and consumption in the decades ahead.

Although human societies have, over time, brought under control a large proportion of the earth’s resources for the purpose of food production, we remain subject to the effective functioning of global ecosystem services. The author highlights the vital importance of these services and explains why we should be concerned about the depletion of freshwater resources, soil fertility decline and loss of biological diversity. The book also tackles some of the enormous challenges of our era: climate change – to which the agri-food system is both a major contributor and a vulnerable sector – and the prospect of significantly higher energy prices, arising from the peaking of oil and gas supplies which will reveal how dependent the food system has become upon cheap fossil fuels. Such challenges are likely to have significant implications for the long-term functioning of global supply chains and raise profound questions regarding the nutritional security of the world’s population. Taken together the book argues that a re-examination of the assumptions and practices underpinning the contemporary food system is urgently required.

Environment and Food is a highly original, inter-disciplinary and accessible text that will be of interest to students and the wider public genuinely interested in and concerned by the state of the world’s food provisioning system. It is richly illustrated with figures and makes extensive use of boxes to highlight relevant examples.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 juli 2011
Aantal pagina's: 320
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Colin Sage
Tweede Auteur: Colin Sage
Hoofduitgeverij: Onbekend

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 157 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 157 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 234 mm
Verpakking lengte: 19 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 556 g

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EAN: 9780415363129

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Categorieën: Wetenschap & Natuur

Technologie & Bouwkunde

Milieukunde

Aarde & Milieu

Aardrijkskunde

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Taal: Engels
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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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