David Hammond

Tropical Bioproductivity (eBook, PDF)

Origins and Distribution in a Globalized World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically Net Primary Productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429949791
• Artikelnr.: 55006081

Autorenporträt

David S. Hammond is Principal, NWFS Consultancy, based in Ashford, Kent, UK and Portland, Oregon, USA. He has undertaken environmental projects in a dozen countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa for clients such as WWF-UK, UNDP, UK DFID, IUCN and the Inter-American Development Bank. He was previously at the Iwokrama International Centre in Georgetown, Guyana, CABI Bioscience and Imperial College, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I Structure, Origins and Distribution 1. Two Tropics 2.
Planet's Powerhouse 3. The Blue and the Green Part II Exchange and
Globalization 4. An Icelandic Banana 5. The Great Crop Swap 6. Sweet Salt
and the Tropical Trade 7. Productivity's Promise Part III Modern
Consequences 8. Smaller, Younger, Poorer 9. The Braided Flow of Resources,
Money and People