Tony Weis

The Ecological Hoofprint

The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how the phenomenal growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture and of ongoing and future food crises.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781780320960
• ISBN-10: 1780320965
• Artikelnr.: 39075173

Autorenporträt

Tony Weis (Ph.D., Queen's University) is Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada. His research is principally interested in examining how global agrarian change is interacting with the spatial marginality of small farmers, related social and environmental problems, and struggles for land reform. He has published in various journals, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, Capital and Class, the Journal of Agrarian Change, Capital, Nature, Socialism, and Global Environmental Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: meatification and why it matters 1. Contextualizing the
hoofprint: global environmental change and inequality 2. The uneven
geography of meat 3. The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex 4.
Confronting the ecological hoofprint: towards a more sustainable, just, and
humane world