Robert Paarlberg

Gebundenes Buch

United States of Excess

Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism

Beschreibung

America is exceptional in its overconsumption of both food and fuel, but it is also exceptional in terms of the weakness of its national policy efforts to correct these problems. Many scholars champion preventative action as the key solution to obesity and climate change; however, Paarlberg predicts that the more realistic goal of adaptation will supplant non-attainable goals based only on prevention.

Autor

Robert Paarlberg is the Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. He is the author of seven books on international food and agricultural policy, American agricultural policy, and United States foreign economic policy. He is also a member of the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the National Research Council and has recently been a consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 147mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199922628
• ISBN-10: 0199922624
• Artikelnr.: 42362512