Jules Pretty, Zareen Pervez Bharucha

Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture (eBook, ePUB)

Greening the World's Food Economy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Co-written by Jules Pretty, one of the pioneers of the concept and internatonally known and respected authority on sustainable agriculture, this book sets out current thinking and debates around sustainable agriculture and intensification.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317269847
• Artikelnr.: 56842229

Autorenporträt

Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex, UK. His sole-authored books include The East Country (2017), The Edge of Extinction (2014), This Luminous Coast (2011), The Earth Only Endures (2007), Agri-Culture (2002) and Regenerating Agriculture (1995). He is the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. He received the UK honour of OBE in 2006 for services to sustainable agriculture, and an honorary degree from Ohio State University in 2009. He has made many media contributions, including to BBC radio, on agriculture, food and sustainability.

Zareen Pervez Bharucha is a Research Fellow in the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, where she leads the Global Risk and Resilience research theme. Her work addresses sustainability transitions, resilience and adaptation with a particular focus on rainfed farms in India. She is also co-editor and author of Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities (2015) and Deputy Editor for the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.

Inhaltsangabe

1. It could be a wonderful world 2. Twenty-first century agriculture and
food 3. The sustainable intensification of agriculture 4. Does sustainable
intensification work? 5. Sustainable intensification on smaller farms in
developing countries 6. Sustainable intensification in industrialised
countries 7. Redesigning an agricultural knowledge economy with social
capital 8. Sustainable intensification for greener economies 9.
World-building by redesign References