The Threatening Desert

Alan Grainger

• Paperback | Engels | 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 o... Lees meer

Genes from the Wild

Robert Prescott-Allen, Christine Prescott-Allen

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• Wild genetic resources - the heritable characteristics of wild plants and animals - are used increasingly to improve domesticated crops and livestock ... Lees meer

After the Green Revolution

Gordon R Conway, Edward B Barbier

• Paperback | Engels | 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 'p... Lees meer

The Threatening Desert

• Hardcover | 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. This book describes w... Lees meer

Unwelcome Harvest

Gordon R Conway, Jules N Pretty

• Paperback | Engels | 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 th... Lees meer

Trees, People and Power

Peter Utting

• Hardcover | 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. ... Lees meer

Waterlogged Wealth

Edward Maltby

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• Destruction is usually a poor trade-off: well-managed wetlands in Louisiana are producing fortunes in seafood and timber. This book examines the value... Lees meer

The Politics of Industrial Agriculture

Tracey Clunies-Ross, Nicholas Hildyard

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• The agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to: extensive ... Lees meer

Our Common Seas

Don Hinrichsen

• Paperback | Engels | 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 g... Lees meer

Genes from the Wild

Robert Prescott-Allen, Christine Prescott-Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Resource Management Set
• Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in ... Lees meer

Asking the Earth

Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook

• Hardcover | 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 fo... Lees meer

After the Green Revolution

Gordon R. Conway, Edward B. Barbier

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• 'The Green Revolution' of the 60s and 70s produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'pos... Lees meer

Controlling Tropical Deforestation

• Paperback | Engels | 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... Lees meer

No Timber Without Trees

Duncan Poore

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• Much of the world's tropical timber is supplied from natural forest. This book reviews the extent to which natural forests are already being sustainab... Lees meer

Saving the Tropical Forests

Judith Gradwohl, Russell Greenberg

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• The destruction of the tropical forest is one of the major problems of our time. This book provides a vision of hope: in Latin America, Africa, and So... Lees meer

Plantation Politics

Caroline Sargent, Stephen Bass

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South. This book examines their rationale and purpo... Lees meer

The Politics of Industrial Agriculture

Tracey Clunies-Ross, Nicholas Hildyard

• Paperback | Engels | 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 al... Lees meer

Our Common Seas

Don Hinrichsen

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, industrial effluents, radioactive waste have been added to ungoverned dev... Lees meer

Controlling Tropical Deforestation

• Hardcover | 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... Lees meer

Unwelcome Harvest

Gordon R. Conway, Jules N. Pretty

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• Agriculture produces methane and the products of burning off, which add to the world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global ... Lees meer

Saving the Seed

Renee Vellve

• Hardcover | Natural Resource Management Set
• Genetic diversity is essential to the security of agriculture. Without the availability of a wide range of plant varieties and the genetic resources t... Lees meer